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Question: hey-"have you experienced london's nottinghill carnival?" it's 1 to check if not!
Asked by bododd (31.124.45.x) on August 29 2019, 11:25am
Reply on August 29 2019, 8:55pm:

I haven't! Comment...

Question: Do you prefer nested ternary expressions over if/elseif/else? Just learned them yesterday, they are so cool, much less lyrics in a code :)
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on August 28 2019, 8:28am
Reply on August 28 2019, 1:08pm:

Depends on the code/function IMO Comment...

Question: Would you do Joe Rogan's podcast? John Carmack is gonna be on tomorrow.
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on August 27 2019, 8:23pm
Reply on August 27 2019, 11:08pm:

Depends on how it would be done I guess? And the subject matter too, probably. Comment...

Question: Is the answer still 42? Just checking, I hate worrying.
Asked by Not_Here (66.133.74.x) on August 26 2019, 8:56am
Reply on August 26 2019, 11:22pm:

Last I checked. Comment...

Question: hey- ok for the sanity of humanity: the reaper credits- "just what IS the hidden part?" please+ty!
Asked by oddbod (31.124.45.x) on August 25 2019, 10:18pm
Reply on August 26 2019, 11:22pm (edited at August 27 2019, 12:17pm):

Not to ruin it for everybody, but ***************. 1 Comment...

Question: will there be a revival of comic sans?
Asked by Thommy (217.194.71.x) on August 25 2019, 9:23am
Reply on August 26 2019, 11:22pm:

I certainly hope not! Comment...

Question: Have you ever experienced lucid dream? (Also, there is a lovely song 'Lucid Dream' of 'Owl City', do you like it?)
Asked by Abhi (103.194.225.x) on August 24 2019, 5:01pm
Reply on August 26 2019, 11:22pm:

Yeah I think I have a number of times. Listening to that song but it's not really my thing. Recently I heard (in Quadraphonic, even) Arp - Nzuku which I liked. Comment...

Question: Thanks Justin! Actually your advice on learning in order to make something you wanted was extremely helpful! Were you ever at a place of having to choose between pursuing a longer-term, 'impractical' goal that made you curious and interested vs learning in-demand skills that you weren't interested in to Get A Job to pay bills?
Asked by SadNoob (71.70.229.x) on August 24 2019, 3:58pm
Reply on August 26 2019, 11:20pm:

I was never put in a position where I had to put aside things that I was interested in in order to work a job I didn't like, and for that I am incredibly grateful! Comment...

Question: Can I run more than 1 ninjam server on 1 server just on different ports? i.e. one on 2049 and one on 2050?
Asked by David (74.108.131.x) on August 24 2019, 1:41pm
Reply on August 24 2019, 1:47pm:

Yes Comment...

Question: Do you know / have you tried Kopi luwak (civet coffee)?
Asked by nofish (94.134.90.x) on August 23 2019, 11:12pm
Reply on August 24 2019, 1:48pm:

Yeah someone gave me some once. It was interesting. Comment...

Question: some people are trying to mess the flow of this forum up on purpose it looks like, well that's fun. don't they realize justin frankel is a company not a person? its a microsoft pet project, winamp wasn't sold to aol, it was put under the aol label so aol doesn't look completely embarrassingly dead in the water, and cause a huge discussion around it
Asked by dude, guys (71.231.176.x) on August 23 2019, 10:53pm
Reply on August 24 2019, 1:48pm:

Uhh right yeah Comment...

Question: hey- it appears you are drawn towards water and seem to care for rivers as well? so: "do you believe we can de_toxify + re_energize the worlds waters?"
Asked by bigfoot's lovechild (95.145.189.x) on August 23 2019, 3:52pm
Reply on August 24 2019, 1:49pm:

I am interested in water yeah, though the words detoxify and reënergize are a bit loaded. I really liked swimming in Copenhagen's harbor, which has been cleaned up sufficiently... Comment...

Question: Thanks Justin. How do I figure out what the heck programming is and what it means and what an algorithm is and what object oriented programming means? And stuff like that? Like, an idea of the larger state of things and the general terminology before I start poking around specifically in Javascript? There is just so much crappy and useless 'information' out there.Thanks in advance!
Asked by SadNoob (71.70.229.x) on August 23 2019, 4:13am
Reply on August 24 2019, 1:50pm:

Personally I tend to be goal-oriented and learn things in order to make things happen, but it's been so long since I've been early in the curve that it's hard for me to give any useful advice! Comment...

Question: What's the proper way for a host-app to link to libSwell.so (linux)? Host-app's modules (.so) should be able to consume swell api by using SWELL_PROVIDED_BY_APP and swell-modstub-generic.o.
Asked by Gio (79.130.185.x) on August 22 2019, 12:52pm
Reply on August 22 2019, 8:50pm:

CFLAGS += -DSWELL_PROVIDED_BY_APP -DSWELL_LOAD_SWELL_DYLIB 1 Comment...

Question: Did you try to write telegram bot? if so, what language would you recommend for it, Lua or Python? I'm writing on Lua, but thought, maybe Python will be more powerful and easy later, when bot will start to grow, what do You think?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on August 22 2019, 11:25am
Reply on August 22 2019, 8:51pm:

I haven't, no idea! Comment...

Question: What languages should a rank n00b learn to make stuff for the web? And how should such a n00b learn them?
Asked by SadNoob (71.70.229.x) on August 22 2019, 5:35am
Reply on August 22 2019, 8:51pm:

Javascript would probably be the most fun. Comment...

Question: Being the creator of Winamp, what music software do you currently use and why. I find muscles to be quite a treat. (:
Asked by Henry a. (174.255.77.x) on August 22 2019, 4:34am
Reply on August 22 2019, 8:51pm:

REAPER ;) Comment...

Question: Hi Justin, if I wanted to work in customer service design, what kind of coding languages would I have to learn?
Asked by BoobleChooble (71.70.229.x) on August 22 2019, 4:19am
Reply on August 22 2019, 4:27am:

I'm not sure what that is 1 Comment...

Question: Do you know that theirs over two trillion galaxies in the universe? I feel like everyone should ponder this weekly when they face problems. (;
Asked by Brian H. (174.254.67.x) on August 22 2019, 2:28am
Reply on August 22 2019, 4:27am:

I didn't know that that was the number, but that's crazy huge. 2 Comments...

Question: hey-"do you fear or embrace super intelligeant ai,or nano techno?"
Asked by bert (95.145.189.x) on August 21 2019, 11:25pm
Reply on August 22 2019, 4:27am:

While I'm sure it could go wrong, I don't fear it, particularly... Hopefully when it happens it'll be a good thing (thinking of the Culture series) Comment...

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