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Question: hey justin do you angel invest in startups
Asked by sara (70.30.114.x) on May 17 2023, 2:19am
Reply on May 19 2023, 6:10pm:

I try to avoid it Comment...

Question: hey, hope all is well. what is your take on high resolution formats? what do you feel is the most logical sample rate/bit rate to render to for high resoultion audio?
Asked by mike s (173.70.39.x) on May 16 2023, 6:45pm
Reply on May 16 2023, 11:13pm:

48khz 24-bit seems good enough for humans 2 Comments...

Question: Did you see someone figured out how to make wasabi modern skins run in the browser? twitter.com/captbaritone/status/16...
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on May 15 2023, 11:10pm
Reply on May 16 2023, 4:14pm:

Jordan is amazing lol Comment...

Question: I have 2 questions here, Firstly, what IS REAPER, and secondly, what is/was a favorate pasttime for you to do
Asked by Danielle (168.182.60.x) on May 15 2023, 9:15pm
Reply on May 16 2023, 4:14pm:

REAPER is a DAW that people can use to make/mangle sound and stuff. Favorite pasttimes? These days, hiking. Comment...

Question: Which browser do you use?
Asked by reapercockos5 (78.182.219.x) on May 14 2023, 7:16pm
Reply on May 16 2023, 4:15pm:

Usually firefox but I'm not terribly attached to any one. Comment...

Question: hey jf- you seen many/any the old british "carry on" films?
Asked by 2023 (86.136.229.x) on May 13 2023, 8:30am
Reply on May 16 2023, 4:15pm:

I don't think so Comment...

Question: Love the vocal harmonies on misover! What do you think about them?
Asked by Sunblister (77.189.163.x) on May 10 2023, 11:01pm
Reply on May 12 2023, 8:03pm:

thanks! I'm still figuring out what I'm doing with my voice Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, from your experience, what is the delta between developers who ship and those who don't? Unintuitively there'll be devs who are wildly talented who don't ship, and less-talented devs who ship. Perfectionism? Confidence?
Asked by Jack (146.70.134.x) on May 10 2023, 11:46am
Reply on May 10 2023, 5:26pm:

I don't have a real answer but definitely knowing when something is good enough is a key skill. Comment...

Question: Are you notified if someone commented in some question here?
Asked by heya (177.191.7.x) on May 9 2023, 11:48pm
Reply on May 10 2023, 2:13am:

it depends Comment...

Question: My son's really into coding. He has gone from "Scratch," as a toddler, through "Python", and is now developing things on Unity. He loves music too, and I suggested perhaps he try to write a basic CLAP for learning purposes. Would you encourage this, and do you have any advice or gotchas to look out for?
Asked by Siddie Nam (51.187.138.x) on May 9 2023, 7:37pm
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:28pm:

It might be more fun to start with writing JSFX, as to not have to deal with all of the parts that are a pain. Comment...

Question: On Tony Hsieh: "“While surrounded by friends in the Bahamas post acquisition as a newly minted 32x millionaire, Tony felt a sense of melancholy. What’s next? What is happiness? What am I working toward? he wondered.” Did you have feelings like this in Tahiti post AOL deal? Was there a melancholy?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on May 9 2023, 3:23pm
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:27pm:

Nah, I wasn't done with Winamp at that point. Comment...

Question: I think you know my cousin Cody, i remember hearing about you from my aunt Lynn
Asked by Jill (76.188.188.x) on May 8 2023, 8:55pm
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:26pm:

Ah I miss that guy! Almost got to see him in February but the snow prevented that from happening. 1 Comment...

Question: hey jf- made a small collage of some painted graffrocks... wanna cheeky sneeky peeky?
Asked by 2023 (86.136.229.x) on May 6 2023, 10:42pm
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:26pm:

Sure. 1 Comment...

Question: Is there a "God Object" in the REAPER code?
Asked by Edward (98.252.188.x) on May 6 2023, 1:15pm
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:25pm:

No but there are a lot of global variables that represent the UI state. Increasingly these end up moved into ReaProject, eventually they all will and we'll allow multiple arrange views etc. 1 Comment...

Question: What was the most alluring airport you have been into?
Asked by Brian Eno (186.210.89.x) on May 6 2023, 8:09am
Reply on May 9 2023, 10:24pm:

Aspen Colorado was small and had a ton of dogs. Comment...

Question: Which programming language do you think is good to a beginner that naver programmed anything?
Asked by Artur (187.19.173.x) on May 3 2023, 8:52pm
Reply on May 4 2023, 1:02am:

It's hard to beat the flexibility and accessibility of JavaScript... but for me it was BASIC on an Atari 800XL, you could go play with an emulator or something? Comment...

Question: Are there plans to allow GPU video rendering in Reaper? It is doable in the ffmpeg, but the commands don't work with Reaper.
Asked by Artur (187.19.173.x) on May 3 2023, 3:04pm
Reply on May 4 2023, 1:03am:

There are plans for the video processors, though on the encoder side ideally if you're using WMF or AVFoundation it should already be GPU-accelerated by the underlying framework. Not sure what it would take to get ffmpeg to use it. 3 Comments...

Question: Whats your favorite Reaper release? I have a soft spot for 6.37
Asked by pedra (77.245.45.x) on May 3 2023, 11:23am
Reply on May 3 2023, 1:22pm:

it's always current or current + a few dev branches for me :) Comment...

Question: How was coding in the 90s compared to now? How did you find information/help about coding then?
Asked by Swede (90.143.249.x) on May 1 2023, 6:01am
Reply on May 1 2023, 5:03pm:

access to documentation and discussion is sooooooooooooooooooooo much better now. I remember always going to bookstores to look for books that would be helpful. 1 Comment...

Question: hey jf- what is your spontaneous action over planned events ratio like these days?
Asked by 2023 (86.149.177.x) on April 30 2023, 7:41am
Reply on May 1 2023, 5:04pm:

Mostly planned I guess, but sometimes planned spontaneously? Comment...

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