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Question: When you look at developers who spend 20-30 years in the profession, who do not attain financial independence early (like yourself), what advice do you have for them (assuming they have family obligations of some sort already)?
Asked by FProt (203.33.154.x) on July 26 2019, 12:27am
Reply on July 26 2019, 7:41am:

Shrug, I dunno, everybody has different things they are good at? 1 Comment...

Question: found article on 1 russian site about Winamp, where one of 2 versions says, that Dmitriy Boldyrev, who was developing MacAmp player at that time, persuaded You to make something similar, but for Windows (WinAmp). true/fake?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on July 25 2019, 10:43am
Reply on July 26 2019, 7:40am:

Dmitry was my friend, who made MacAmp first. To say he would persuaded me would be a bit much, but I did see MacAmp and immediately desired to make something similar for Windows. He didn’t write any of it, though. Eventually he got a job in Seattle, got very into rave culture (apparently), and I didn’t hear from him until much later (under impersonal terms), and since then he’s made all kinds of outrageous claims. Sigh. 2 Comments...

Question: Are you happy in life? Are you taking care of you mental health and well being? You've come a long way since the light hearted days of Winamp 1.006!
Asked by Peter (87.224.9.x) on July 25 2019, 10:00am
Reply on July 26 2019, 7:36am:

Yes, considering. There are a lot of things to be unhappy about. 1 Comment...

Question: Read that you use Slack. Have you heard of Matrix (matrix.org)? Thought that might be something for you.
Asked by fladd (92.110.122.x) on July 24 2019, 7:41pm
Reply on July 26 2019, 7:35am:

I haven’t, maybe I’ll take a look, though slack works well enough not to bother 2 Comments...

Question: Yesterday, I tried to open old REAPER projects, like of 2016, 14 projects, most of them were just ideas, but the projects are not opening. It gives error "There was an error parsing the specified project" :( I tried to find the solution on internet, and in one website, someone wrote that REAPER has a serious bug. Is it true? Are my old projects lost forever? Do you know anything about this error? I am worrying about my new projects now.
Asked by Abhi (104.131.188.x) on July 23 2019, 2:32pm
Reply on July 24 2019, 8:43am:

Send a .rpp file to support at cockos dot com and we’ll have a look. 2 Comments...

Question: can you please explain cockos meaning? :D
Asked by Emmm (46.199.196.x) on July 22 2019, 3:01pm
Reply on July 24 2019, 8:43am:

look on here some more and you might find it 1 Comment...

Question: Did you ever have struggle with betrayl? In general sense. And how do you deal with it?
Asked by guitarguy (94.134.91.x) on July 21 2019, 9:15pm
Reply on July 21 2019, 9:30pm:

Not really? Comment...

Question: Which antivirus do you use? Or, you have made your own antivirus, just like you have made your own cloud storage ;)
Asked by Abhi (104.131.75.x) on July 21 2019, 3:41pm
Reply on July 21 2019, 9:29pm:

I continuously roll the dice; on Windows I usually use the MS builtin stuff. Comment...

Question: what tires you out when working on REAPER?
Asked by sean (186.31.97.x) on July 20 2019, 6:28pm
Reply on July 21 2019, 9:29pm:

The most tedious and least rewarding is the whack-a-mole of plug-in compatibility. 1 Comment...

Question: Today i found out, how shitty coder i am, because performance of a c++ thing i did, works the same as lua script on Win and on 2% worse on mac OS(at least on virtual machine), i am sad and need vodka today :) If you remember, can you name a few functions from WDL, that can be very hungry/heavy? I will be trying to find out, what i did wrong and will start from them. Thanks!
Asked by Poooooooooooooooooooooooony (78.152.169.x) on July 18 2019, 11:42am
Reply on July 20 2019, 10:35am:

Compiler optimizations enabled? post the code if you want feedback.. :) Familiar with big-O notation? Usually the first step is figuring out the things which are exponential or O(N^y) time where y is more than 1... 3 Comments...

Question: I recently found some old GUIs White Tie came up with for the main Reaper plugins, I guess over a decade ago. The ReaComp one looked amazing. Here is the link: reaperblog.net/2013/01/reacomp-is-...Could these be made available at some point, they look great!
Asked by David (74.14.60.x) on July 18 2019, 4:13am
Reply on July 20 2019, 10:34am:

Nahh... Comment...

Question: Do you think, it is now a good time to buy Intel based Apple machine for software development, considering upcoming ARM based machines. Or it's better to wait and see what Apple will bring up to the table?
Asked by zabukowski (89.142.60.x) on July 17 2019, 9:23am
Reply on July 17 2019, 7:20pm:

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for ARM macs, and when they do arrive I'd probably wait for the second generation... unless you really like being on the bleeding edge. 1 Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, some of the JS plugins are seemingly not available when the Mac Reaper version is installed. They seem to be there on Windows. In particular the ''Utility'' js plugins like the basic limiter are not there. You still refer to those in the manual, so I just wondered about that. Thanks
Asked by David (74.14.60.x) on July 17 2019, 3:05am
Reply on July 17 2019, 7:22pm:

We removed a bunch of very-outdated JSFX from 5.0 -- if you have them on your Windows machine it is probably left over from a 4.x install. You can do the same on the mac side. If the manual mentions them, if so it should probably be revised (I'll look and mention it to Geoff)... 1 Comment...

Question: I just recently started using Reaper and I love it! I also love the approach you have taken with the software being very fairly priced and not stripping down the software for cheaper licenses. Since you were bought out before by AOL, if some corporation comes along and offers you a whole bunch of cash for Reaper... would you sell it?
Asked by Todd (199.5.189.x) on July 16 2019, 6:47pm
Reply on July 16 2019, 9:36pm:

I can't say never but it's been incredibly unlikely for a long time. 2 Comments...

Question: any advice for addictions in general, thanks
Asked by Emmm (46.199.192.x) on July 15 2019, 2:17pm
Reply on July 16 2019, 9:36pm:

No idea, sorry Comment...

Question: What is/was your parents occupation?
Asked by Vitali (212.87.13.x) on July 14 2019, 1:32pm
Reply on July 16 2019, 9:36pm:

Lawyering and various Comment...

Question: Just like this website, where we ask questions from you and you answer us, why not make a website 'Answer Justin Frankel', where you ask us questions, any type of question, and we answer you? :D
Asked by Abhi (103.66.140.x) on July 13 2019, 9:24am
Reply on July 14 2019, 2:45am:

I already have google for that or something? Comment...

Question: I use reaper .999 but now have computer w/ 16gb ram.(time to go 64 bit)Traction,cakewalk,ardour are slow pigs(poorly coded)Will you consider making older versions of reaper,say up to 2.58, free ?
Asked by scott (76.18.147.x) on July 12 2019, 3:31pm
Reply on July 12 2019, 8:43pm:

That's an interesting thought... 3 Comments...

Question: Are you aware of Fabrice Bellard? bellard.org ... He seems amazing as a programmer!
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on July 12 2019, 2:51pm
Reply on July 12 2019, 8:43pm:

Yep Comment...

Question: Do You believe, that ARM can replace x86 (specifically x86-64) in future?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on July 12 2019, 7:02am
Reply on July 12 2019, 1:00pm:

Could it? yes. Will it? Probably not? 1 Comment...

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