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Question: Do you think in large teams of devs it's usually 1 or 2 people doing most of the heavy lifting and everyone else coasting?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on January 31 2010, 6:35pm
Reply on February 1 2010, 8:21pm:

I haven't been in that large of a dev team, but it sounds reasonable enough. Comment...

Question: Have you ever talked with any other major DAW developers, and can you imagine making a DAW with 20+ people?
Asked by James (68.225.40.x) on January 30 2010, 12:41am
Reply on January 31 2010, 5:47pm:

Not programmers, but people at their organizations, yes. 20 people working on anything, bleh, sounds like a pain in the ass to me... Comment...

Question: ninjam was the first thing that came to mind for me
Asked by Justin (173.55.71.x) on January 29 2010, 7:30pm
Reply on January 31 2010, 5:48pm:

Likewise! Comment...

Question: did you see www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/29/video-eight-musicians-from-around-... ?
Asked by Justin (173.55.71.x) on January 29 2010, 2:07pm
Reply on January 29 2010, 3:51pm:

Nice.. wonder how they did it (ninjam? send mp3s or oggs around?) Comment...

Question: Are you going to continue working on snapease? If so are you going to release the source? Please add more features....
Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on January 29 2010, 12:47pm
Reply on January 29 2010, 3:52pm:

Yeah, when I find things I need.. thinking maybe color correction stuff. It is already open source. Comment...

Question: How to edit an .mp3 file to show lyrics in iPhone::iPod?
Asked by Dave (222.90.231.x) on January 28 2010, 5:46pm
Reply on January 28 2010, 9:50pm:

No idea on this one... I didn't even know it was possible. Comment...

Question: How many mbits?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on January 28 2010, 11:13am
Reply on January 28 2010, 9:50pm:

More than a few. Comment...

Question: How much is your monthly bandwidth cost?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on January 27 2010, 5:46pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 6:25pm:

about $45/mbit. Comment...

Question: approx what percentage of questions do you receive here do you answer?
Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on January 27 2010, 1:07pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 6:25pm:

approx 100%. I don't always give terribly insightful responses, though. Comment...

Question: When you rich, do you buy a house right out or mortgage it?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on January 26 2010, 2:24pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 12:31pm:

I think you'd have to weight what the interest of a mortgage would be vs what you could earn with that money, factoring into account any tax deductions you get for paying interest on your house... Comment...

Question: How much do you sleep a night? Is it consistent from night to night?
Asked by sneezy (67.250.114.x) on January 25 2010, 6:25pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 12:31pm:

8-10 hours or so usually. I've been trying for consistency, but it isn't quite what I'd like it to be. Comment...

Question: i tried to reduce exe size by removing crt! How to overcome _fltused link error? (Vs2005)
Asked by ruchira (125.214.169.x) on January 25 2010, 6:19pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 12:32pm:

Don't use floating point math... Generally I use VC6 that way I can just link with msvcrt.dll (which is available on all systems win95b+). Comment...

Question: Do you and your wife usually go on trips spontaneously? You have pics from many cities. Loved the Coors/statue of liberty pic ha
Asked by AnalSeducer (70.237.155.x) on January 25 2010, 2:15pm
Reply on January 27 2010, 12:32pm:

Nah usually we plan things. Comment...

Question: i wrote software that i'd like to sell to some companies, but have no idea what they would pay. any ideas how to price it?
Asked by tacotime (170.146.20.x) on January 25 2010, 12:05pm
Reply on January 25 2010, 2:06pm:

Completely talking out my ass while I wait for a fsck to finish: I guess you have to figure out why they'd want to buy it, and what kind of cost would be justified by the potential upside for them. That'd be your high bound. Then the low bound would be the minimum you need to sustain it as a business. If your low bound is above the high bound, you're in trouble... Comment...

Question: PDF vs Paper Books which do you prefer? I notice I get tired a lot faster when reading PDF books vs regular books.
Asked by AnalSeducer (64.134.221.x) on January 25 2010, 11:51am
Reply on January 25 2010, 2:07pm:

Regular books. Comment...

Question: Do you agree you have a much hotter wife than this fellow geek? yle.fi/linna98/photos/photo46_i.jpg
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on January 25 2010, 1:27am
Reply on January 25 2010, 2:07pm:

Well since my wife reads this I think there's only one answer for this question... Comment...

Question: now you have deshacerse de all the CRTs/CDs etc. what are you planning to do with the free space?
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on January 24 2010, 10:28pm
Reply on January 25 2010, 2:08pm:

It'll probably go away when the earthquake comes... poof. Comment...

Question: dont know if this has been answered, but how did you market winamp into the biggest media player of its time?
Asked by Justin (173.55.71.x) on January 24 2010, 1:21pm
Reply on January 24 2010, 4:52pm:

We really didn't market it at all.. everybody who used it liked to evangelize us... Comment...

Question: Along the same lines, how do you time the drawing of the VU with an audio buffer?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on January 23 2010, 5:05pm
Reply on January 23 2010, 11:40pm:

In REAPER's case, it calculates the peak time for each block of audio.. then at a certain rate it goes and calculates the peak of all blocks to current, then replaces the meter value with that (if greater than the decaying current value)... Comment...

Question: Or rather, given a set of samples, what's the most efficient way to draw the wave in win32
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on January 23 2010, 11:11am
Reply on January 23 2010, 4:25pm:

REAPER uses a set of peak mipmaps, or generates it from the source if the resolution is right. In peaks mode (more than 1 audio sample/pix), it picks the next highest resolution mipmap, then finds the min/max for the range of each sample. In sample mode (1 or less audio sample/pixel), it does interpolation etc... Comment...

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