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Question: Windows phones are dead. Windows store is like post-apocalyptic film scene (even famous apps like Facebook, Whatsapp has like only 100 reviews?). I think, soon Microsoft will end its Windows Store in Windows 10 and it will again become like Windows 7. Do you think Microsoft comes to end? If yes, then what's the future of Windows OS? Will it be replaceable by another OS, which can compete MacOS?
Asked by Abhi (104.131.188.x) on July 5 2019, 3:25pm
Reply on July 6 2019, 3:11am:

And yet somehow MS is now worth over $1T? So maybe Windows store is bad, but they've still got it? 5 Comments...

Question: Will reaper 6 be entirely different from all other reaper Daws
Asked by Bryan (76.86.126.x) on July 5 2019, 12:34pm
Reply on July 6 2019, 3:10am:

No it will be entirely not different! But first, 5.980. Comment...

Question: Which build tools do you use in your pipeline (e.g. Jenkins, SonarQube, etc.)?
Asked by Chris (69.165.148.x) on July 5 2019, 11:49am
Reply on July 6 2019, 3:10am:

Some custom scripts written mostly in PHP. Comment...

Question: What is your day to day like? ie: occupation
Asked by William (45.41.173.x) on July 5 2019, 1:08am
Reply on July 6 2019, 3:10am:

Making REAPER, things relating to that mostly. And playing music though it is far less commercial... :) Comment...

Question: In your landoleet.org website, in 'whatsnew-dev.txt, you have used '+', '-' and '#' for updates. What does these symbols means?
Asked by Abhi (117.207.136.x) on July 3 2019, 8:31am
Reply on July 3 2019, 2:35pm:

+ is major changelog line, -/# are lines that will be in development builds but not releases (usually represent changes from dev build to dev build, or very minor things). Comment...

Question: What should I do during college?
Asked by Zach (98.232.186.x) on July 3 2019, 1:17am
Reply on July 3 2019, 2:35pm:

Enjoy! Comment...

Question: How do you keep track of the gazillions of features in Reaper so you don't break things with new features? Do you have some kind of reference-documentation or is the code itself docs enough? ;)
Asked by Mespotine (109.104.51.x) on July 2 2019, 10:06pm
Reply on July 3 2019, 2:36pm:

Try not to overengineer, I guess? :) Comment...

Question: There's some Reaper users that seem to spend their entire lives obsessing over the program creating scripts like it's their full-time job. Have you ever thought about just bringing them on to the actual team? Just wondering what your philosophy is on that.
Asked by Nick (159.153.90.x) on July 2 2019, 5:56pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:48pm:

I'm a terrible manager. 2 Comments...

Question: What's the best way to handle someone who is arrogant / too sure of him/her self?
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on July 2 2019, 3:30pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:48pm:

Disassociate? :) Comment...

Question: What happend to the (Cockos) IRC server?
Asked by Kaboon (82.74.12.x) on July 1 2019, 5:53pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:49pm:

The VM running it crapped out, my backup was old enough that I sort of said "fuck it, maybe I won't bother"... haven't really missed it since then! Comment...

Question: Any chance WDL_HeapBuf/WDL_TypedBuf to get constructs for iterators and ranges? For those of us that have become "modern" but still love WDL for what it is... it should be trivial but I see the other side of the argument too ;)
Asked by Gio (94.66.58.x) on July 1 2019, 3:06pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:49pm:

Shrug, someone could add that... Comment...

Question: Tulsi Gabbard? Do you see her as potus?
Asked by Greg (89.212.48.x) on June 30 2019, 5:34pm
Reply on June 30 2019, 10:54pm:

Not my first (or second, or third, etc) choice, but I'd vote for her in the general! Comment...

Question: You changed your avatar... I miss that llama already. You look a bit like Chuck Norris. That's cool. Only Chuck Norris could program Reaper so well
Asked by John (23.94.190.x) on June 29 2019, 8:50pm
Reply on June 30 2019, 10:54pm:

Yeah I miss the llama too. Comment...

Question: Have you ever used Yubikey?
Asked by fujimotos (153.249.215.x) on June 28 2019, 11:08pm
Reply on June 29 2019, 1:32pm:

I haven't Comment...

Question: I would like to get ninjam much bigger than it is right now. Is there any ways I can help ninjam to get more popular than what it is before? I can probably get a younger crowd to use Ninjam and experiment with it.
Asked by David (108.21.205.x) on June 28 2019, 6:45pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 7:03pm:

Pay people to use it!!! jk Comment...

Question: In your reaper.fm website, in the download section, why we have to click on a down-arrow button to open the Linux experimental builds? Why not they are visible like Windows & Mac downloads?
Asked by Abhi (117.197.7.x) on June 27 2019, 3:27pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:41am:

Because they are experimental. Comment...

Question: Do you use inclusively just Rea-FX/JSFX when working on Music. (or 3rd party FX) ?- Just Reckon you should be f--k--g proud of these FX you have created ;) and the stash/community of JSFX is amazing! Do you have a favourite Rea/JS FX? that you can't resist, or admire heaps, even if you don't use it too often?
Asked by BeingAbeanHasBeen (49.196.174.x) on June 27 2019, 2:05pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:42am:

These days I mostly just use reaeq reacomp and reaverb... Sometimes Super8 and General Dynamics. Comment...

Question: Would u ever consider making a hardware instrument if it were with the right partners?
Asked by Kobie Berkhout (145.132.120.x) on June 26 2019, 5:57pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:43am:

Nahhhh 1 Comment...

Question: What would you recommend for Pitch Detection? What do you use for ReaTune, for example? (Sorry for not emailing you, seems you haven`t answered since your inbox is full)
Asked by _mpl (46.72.98.x) on June 26 2019, 3:42pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:43am:

I’ll email you but google probably will help more... Comment...

Question: Have you heard of Loki (loki.network)? The architecture behind their upcoming messenger reminds me kinda of WASTE only on a grand scale and it uses crypto incentivized Service Nodes instead of users to route encrypted traffic.
Asked by Jason (73.57.212.x) on June 26 2019, 11:47am
Reply on June 26 2019, 2:47pm:

I haven't but I'll take a look! Comment...

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