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Question: how often do you go into the office, everyday? how long is the commute?
Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on February 13 2010, 10:17am
Reply on February 14 2010, 8:00pm:

Not every day.. probably half or so. it's about a 15m bike ride. Comment...

Question: Are you travelling these days?
Asked by Fergo (189.4.55.x) on February 12 2010, 6:59pm
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:42am:

Nah, more distracted with developing something kinda interesting.. not a new app or anything, but a cool reuse of some existing code, relating to existing projects... anyway :) Comment...

Question: What do you think of the uTorrent application?
Asked by Poop (67.88.171.x) on February 12 2010, 11:37am
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:42am:

uTorrent is nice. I like it. Comment...

Question: Have you ever studied the bittorrent protocol? Think you could improve it?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on February 12 2010, 10:34am
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:43am:

Not really. Comment...

Question: How to do face warp things using LICE?
Asked by ruchira (202.129.234.x) on February 10 2010, 7:14pm
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:44am:

LICE_TransformBlit() may do what you want. you give it an output rectangle, a source image, and a list of source image points that get mapped to points on the output rectangle.. you can do all kinds of fun stuff with that. Comment...

Question: Besides Carmack, who are the other programmer you look up to?
Asked by Poop (66.184.76.x) on February 10 2010, 9:15am
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:47am:

Umm I dunno... most programmers don't get to be that well known. I do appreciate when I go to integrate a particular bit of code, and it's reasonably designed. Wavpack is much more enjoyable to integrate than FLAC, for example. That's a tangent.. anyway I do read virtualdub.org now and then, it's helpful/interesting. Comment...

Question: does reaper support "track freeze" so softsynth RAM is freed up and MIDI automatically converted to audio until track unfrozen?
Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on February 9 2010, 10:51am
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:45am:

You can render stems on the track, then offline the plug-ins, yes... but there's no fancy "freeze" button. Comment...

Question: Act of nature? Or does the cameraman have superpowers with his eyes? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImZHU4s0os
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.73.x) on February 8 2010, 4:06pm
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:44am:

Shit happens... Comment...

Question: How do you trigger keyboard/mouse events on reaper's waveform?
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on February 8 2010, 3:47pm
Reply on February 13 2010, 8:44am:

Not sure I understand this? Comment...

Question: What's your favorite piece of software besides your own?
Asked by Poop (66.184.76.x) on February 7 2010, 7:16pm
Reply on February 8 2010, 1:14pm (edited at February 8 2010, 1:15pm):

Tortoise SVN
Synergy2
PHP
LAME
ClipX
vim
screen
Windows 7, even.
putty

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Question: Ever considered creating your own language / compiler, just for the challenge?
Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on February 7 2010, 4:58pm
Reply on February 8 2010, 11:40am:

I guess I did, on accident, with

NSIS

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Question: "What am I gonna do with 40 subscriptions to Vibe?" haha "I'm a people person!!" had to add those in, ill ask questions again
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.86.x) on February 7 2010, 7:51am
Reply on February 8 2010, 1:10pm:

Indeed! Comment...

Question: So what is Cockos's office used to be before you guys converted into office/dev space?
Asked by Poop (66.184.76.x) on February 7 2010, 7:46am
Reply on February 8 2010, 1:10pm:

It was an S&M club. Comment...

Question: I'm no Einstein or anything. But your decision to leave college PAID off haha. Got to make kick ass shit along the way too!
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.86.x) on February 7 2010, 6:33am
Reply on February 8 2010, 1:10pm:

Yeah I can't complain. Though maybe I missed out, too... Comment...

Question: Is that Cocko's office in the N900 video? "Dev room", sofas, studio... if so, sounds great!
Asked by Fergo (189.4.55.x) on February 6 2010, 9:24pm
Reply on February 7 2010, 1:17am:

Yeah, it's a good space. Just don't ask what it used to be before we got it... Comment...

Question: From the youtube video that you made with N900, are you still using an old CRT montior? If so, why aren't you upgrading to LCD?
Asked by Poop (66.184.76.x) on February 6 2010, 6:04pm
Reply on February 7 2010, 1:16am:

Hmm no I use LCDs. Comment...

Question: Check out channel 9, it's the breast exams!
Asked by Lawrence (71.142.86.x) on February 6 2010, 5:47pm
Reply on February 7 2010, 1:16am:

Doesn't that chick look like Ann? Comment...

Question: What were some of the main driving forces that made you decide to leave college? I always found it primitive myself. Take Care
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.86.x) on February 6 2010, 4:04pm
Reply on February 7 2010, 1:16am:

I think the forces were boredom, unnecessary hassle from the school's IT department, a small cramped dorm room... Comment...

Question: Do you find Reaper personally more rewarding to develop than winamp?
Asked by James (68.225.40.x) on February 6 2010, 11:26am
Reply on February 7 2010, 1:14am:

Yeah, I think it's something that I use more creatively than I did Winamp... Comment...

Question: Just saw your post about Nokia. Nice office man! Liked the couch area. Dam No AT&T did it for you huh? haha
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.86.x) on February 5 2010, 12:41pm
Reply on February 5 2010, 10:30pm:

Yeah that and a somewhat stupid system design... Comment...

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