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Ask Justin Frankel
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Question: If you were to articulate what makes "Ok Computer" such a great album, what would you say?
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on May 4 2017, 2:36pm
Reply on May 4 2017, 2:40pm:

Great songs that go well together, with outstanding performances and engineering? Or something. And a soul. Comment...

Question: Why ___pad in certain classes became public:? Thanks.
Asked by Gio (94.70.23.x) on May 2 2017, 7:21am
Reply on May 3 2017, 4:34pm:

gcc would complain about unused private members Comment...

Question: I'm about to write a small Win32 program which needs MP4 video playback. What library do you recommend?
Asked by Rodrigo (177.204.35.x) on April 30 2017, 7:27pm
Reply on May 1 2017, 2:47am:

Unfortunately there's really no good solution that I can recommend. There is a Win8+ API for MP4 decoding, but I don't think it's very straightforward to use, and you can use FFmpeg, but it's also very not straightforward. I'd probably recommend the latter, though. Comment...

Question: What are your thoughts on online anonymity and projects like Tor? Shall one use it?
Asked by asafonov (192.42.116.x) on April 25 2017, 7:54pm
Reply on April 27 2017, 1:13pm:

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Question: Hi Mr. Frankel, my name is Justine and I am a journalist at Stony Brook University. I am currently working on an article about the possibility of recording studios becoming obsolete. I would greatly appreciate if you took the time to answer a couple of my questions: 1) Did you create REAPER with a specific kind of user in mind, if so what kind? 2) Do you th
Asked by Justine Josue (129.49.198.x) on April 24 2017, 1:17pm
Reply on April 24 2017, 2:22pm:

Hi, since your questions were truncated, you can email me more questions at justin at cockos dot com -- I created with REAPER for my own use, originally... Comment...

Question: Happy 20th Birthday, Winamp! Will you share your favorite memory of the first year or two of development?
Asked by Will (68.201.25.x) on April 21 2017, 10:57pm
Reply on April 23 2017, 3:25pm:

Hah as if I remember anything... I remember not using version control, ugh! boo hiss Comment...

Question: You posted an aerial photo of your Bay Area neighborhood, some years back, what was the boulevard in the picture ?
Asked by Seann (64.175.41.x) on April 17 2017, 3:11pm
Reply on April 17 2017, 4:01pm:

Probably Dolores or Guerrero, but I'd need to see the picture Comment...

Question: What color scheme do you use in you terminal, vim, VS, XCode?
Asked by asafonov (109.172.98.x) on April 17 2017, 9:55am
Reply on April 17 2017, 4:02pm:

Black background, usually, but I've gotten lazier about changing that. Comment...

Question: The WaveVR is something you might like. Reminds me of Winamp. youtu.be/5OIGhi0QyMo?t=3647
Asked by Erik (73.204.130.x) on April 16 2017, 1:17am
Reply on April 16 2017, 3:16am:

Some AVSy things in there you mean? Reminds me of unconed... Comment...

Question: Who needs instruments? youtube.com/watch?v=FqJdzYY_Fas
Asked by Will (66.190.71.x) on April 15 2017, 6:17pm
Reply on April 16 2017, 3:04am (edited at April 16 2017, 3:09am):

so much better.

also this

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Question: Could you make it the same font size? It would help.
Asked by Janne (109.232.227.x) on April 15 2017, 2:33pm
Reply on April 16 2017, 3:04am:

I could, but I won't Comment...

Question: Could you add fade-out and fade-in modifiers to ReaVerb?
Asked by Janne (213.152.162.x) on April 14 2017, 6:08pm
Reply on April 15 2017, 2:42am:

see above Comment...

Question: What is your favorite genre of music?
Asked by Landon (142.129.171.x) on April 13 2017, 10:42pm
Reply on April 15 2017, 2:43am:

post-rock or psychedelic rock or something maybe? also all of radiohead. Comment...

Question: RE: UWP MIDI wrapper missing get device ID. I'm sure mr. Stammen will include it if an issue is opened on github. Ehehe. :)
Asked by EvilDragon (141.138.47.x) on April 12 2017, 8:51am
Reply on April 12 2017, 1:54pm:

It would be trivial for us to add, too... Comment...

Question: Did you watch Better Call Saul last night? Do you also like The Walking Dead?
Asked by Mommy (99.173.156.x) on April 12 2017, 1:31am
Reply on April 12 2017, 1:36am: