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Question: hey jf- when people say music can be an emotional experience...are there many (or any) songs that can geniunely bring tears of either sadness or happiness for you?
Asked by 2024 (86.149.177.x) on April 4 2024, 2:47pm
Reply on April 5 2024, 2:09am:

Yeah usually for the associated memories though, as opposed to purely from the music. But this is hard to untangle. 1 Comment...

Question: I reckon a lot of people have asked you this in the recent past but besides Reaper do you have any other big development project in mind or in the making?
Asked by André S. (177.141.171.x) on April 4 2024, 1:21am
Reply on April 5 2024, 2:10am:

Not at the moment. I still want someone to make a geotag-centric photo sharing/discovery site -- something like "in space and time". and have gpx support so you could cross-reference against runs/bike rides/etc. but I won't do it, too much work and would probably never get enough users to be useful. Comment...

Question: Hey, what kinda music are you into nowadays? How much time do you spend playing music?
Asked by Rano (146.196.45.x) on April 2 2024, 2:47pm
Reply on April 2 2024, 5:47pm:

I've been really digging Idles. And all of the old favorites too. Time spent playing music varies week to week and month to month, but I enjoy it. Comment...

Question: Have you seen this post re:darkmode, on the forum? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=...
Asked by Dom64 (82.132.212.x) on April 1 2024, 11:59pm
Reply on April 2 2024, 2:37am:

Nice, I hadn't Comment...

Question: Do you work together with schwa to solve a same problem or do you work separately on different problems?
Asked by Jo24 (91.165.163.x) on April 1 2024, 7:10pm
Reply on April 1 2024, 7:17pm:

It depends on how the problem relates to our respective areas of expertise: sometimes we collaborate on problems, other times we deal with them completely separately. Comment...

Question: hey jf- did you take note of ytubes updated terms about "altered content"? & do you see any reason to be #alarmed by any of these new terms?
Asked by 2024 (81.131.121.x) on April 1 2024, 6:20pm
Reply on April 1 2024, 7:18pm:

I hadn't seen this, thanks for the heads-up! Looks like a good policy for them to have. 1 Comment...

Question: Is the whole ninjam codebase covered by GPLv2? There's a confusing ninjam/license.txt file stating a custom license agreement but it's not clear what this applies to.
Asked by cbix (89.0.31.x) on March 30 2024, 2:27pm
Reply on March 30 2024, 2:53pm:

ah thanks, I will remove that ninjam/license.txt -- it is all GPLv2 Comment...

Question: When you're running, do you think about the REAPER code? Do you have any new ideas that come to mind at that moment? :)
Asked by robert (2.7.2.x) on March 29 2024, 12:31pm
Reply on March 29 2024, 6:16pm:

Sometimes, usually it's more a problem-solving sort of thing rather than new ideas, but new ideas have also happened. Comment...

Question: I am currently designing a custom game engine and I have taken inspiration from Reaper for it's modular architecture. I was wondering if I should create a custom plugin architecture for the engine modules or just use dlopen() and LoadLibraryA with compatibility stubs? Thanks in advance.
Asked by Matthew (76.37.54.x) on March 27 2024, 11:58pm
Reply on March 29 2024, 12:20pm:

Whatever works really! Comment...

Question: Are you programming for cache? What's your idea about data oriented programming?
Asked by Ruchira (123.231.105.x) on March 27 2024, 6:12pm
Reply on March 29 2024, 12:20pm: