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Question: Who's my girlfriend?
Asked by Marco (67.171.73.x) on July 3 2010, 6:47am
Reply on July 3 2010, 4:46pm:
    How should I know?
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Question: Do you usually use stuff like connect signal slot (like the one in boost)? or you make your own functors.. adapters?
Asked by Eric (83.78.131.x) on July 3 2010, 1:00am
Reply on July 3 2010, 4:46pm (edited at July 3 2010, 4:49pm):
    No, and no, not really... Generally if I have two objects that need to be communicating with eachother, I make that more explicit ... or use the equivalent of a dispatch (i.e. windows message, or emulated windows message)
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Question: Is it safe to mix new/delete with malloc/free?
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on July 1 2010, 2:05pm
Reply on July 1 2010, 8:10pm:
    It's safe to use both, as long as you don't delete something malloc()'d, or free something new'd.. but yes, you can have different bits of code using each.
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Question: Do you always check if it is success when calling "new" operator?
Asked by dave (222.90.231.x) on July 1 2010, 12:37am
Reply on July 1 2010, 9:25am:
    Not really. We pretty much only use new for single objects (and use malloc/free/WDL_HeapBuf-based storage for everything else).

    We do verify that our allocations succeed, when it is likely that they are for enough RAM where the heap could conceivably not have a block big enough. I love x86_64, btw. mmm.
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Question: People always talk about the book 'Outliers' I kind of thought it was bullshit. Have you read it? Thoughts?
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.94.x) on June 29 2010, 2:44pm
Reply on July 1 2010, 9:25am:
    I haven't read it.
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Question: Think shoutcasting could be done via distributed protocol (such as torrent)?
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on June 29 2010, 8:51am
Reply on July 1 2010, 9:25am:
    Probably, though I think you'd still need a decent amount of bandwidth to seed, as you'd need to guarantee throughput. Christophe actually did some experimentation with this for video streaming at one point.
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Question: can we expect multitrack quantization ala beat detective in Reaper?
Asked by Michael (90.185.64.x) on June 25 2010, 7:11am
Reply on June 27 2010, 7:57pm:
    Well in a REAPER-way there is somewhat now..
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Question: Thanks for the link! Got you a STP interview from last month on howard stern. drop.io/hnq5vp4/asset/howard-stern-stp-mp3
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.83.x) on June 22 2010, 6:31pm
Reply on June 27 2010, 7:57pm:
    Cool thx
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Question: Is AOL asking VLC to strip out ShoutCast support an expected move?
Asked by Wayne (66.72.215.x) on June 22 2010, 6:05am
Reply on June 22 2010, 3:52pm:
    To be clear, I believe this is just for the directory, and not shoutcast streaming in general. I don't think they directly asked, they just imposed conditions that could not be met. At any rate, the people making those decisions are probably thinking a bit too much about the short term bottom line..
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Question: Any Comment? news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/21/1928220/VLC-11-Forced-To-Drop-S...
Asked by _Me_ (216.137.196.x) on June 21 2010, 10:29pm
Reply on June 22 2010, 3:51pm:
    I get it, but, meh...
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Question: So how was the bt interview? (the topics/the guys/etc) In addition when is it going to be published? Happy? yeah, 3 questions :)
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on June 21 2010, 7:46pm
Reply on June 21 2010, 8:28pm:
    I pretty much made an ass of myself, saying stuff that I couldn't really explain anyway, as evidenced from their blog post...
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Question: Oh Yeah, is this really Schwa or is it just for fun? www.cockos.com/images/team-schwa.jpg
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.83.x) on June 21 2010, 3:36pm
Reply on June 21 2010, 5:19pm:
    I'm not sure, he claims it is...
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Question: Do you sort of wish WASTE wasn't disputed and you could start a WASTE network instead of a BBS?
Asked by roberttheiii (71.235.42.x) on June 21 2010, 4:13am
Reply on June 21 2010, 5:19pm:
    Not really, if I did really want to do something like WASTE again I could.. Just haven't bothered ;)
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Question: A little something to kick start your day www.youtube.com/watch?v=61R0LO9Sa0k How are things? - Peace
Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.83.x) on June 21 2010, 1:22am
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Question: I wonder if you could port WWIV BBS to work over telnet?
Asked by Will (174.52.235.x) on June 21 2010, 12:08am
Reply on June 21 2010, 5:18pm:
    Probably...
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Question: What's a project that is simple enough to implement, yet interesting enough to bother? I was thinking HTTP server, maybe?
Asked by Eric (129.21.112.x) on June 20 2010, 12:48pm
Reply on June 20 2010, 6:45pm (edited at June 20 2010, 6:56pm):
    Yeah that can be slightly fun. If it were me, I'd probably do a telnet BBS. I want one now.

    This is of course one of the "chicken and egg" problems of programming -- finding something that is both within your skill set, and interesting enough to entice you. It gets easier as you gain experience and your skill set expands...
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Question: What are you bad at when it comes to programming?
Asked by Will (174.52.235.x) on June 18 2010, 9:09am
Reply on June 18 2010, 7:26pm (edited at June 20 2010, 6:46pm):
    Hmm, there are plenty of areas which I have little experience in, but how can I list them when I don't know them? My math skills beyond 2D calculus are pretty weak, so stuff that relies on advanced math, too...

    Edit: schwa says "variable names, especially constants." I can't argue with his point.
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Question: do you still have dreams of being a telecoms engineer?
Asked by iamtef (82.41.7.x) on June 18 2010, 6:56am
Reply on June 18 2010, 7:22pm:
    Hmm I don't think I ever did. Unless I'm misunderstanding.
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Question: Do you worry at all about software patents? Ever had any problems with them in the past?
Asked by Alex (129.234.252.x) on June 18 2010, 1:20am
Reply on June 18 2010, 7:22pm:
    I do worry about them, yes. I haven't had any direct problems, but of course there are always things that you'd like to do, but can't without worrying.
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Question: Are you a completely self-taught musician? Do you read music?
Asked by schmoe (96.55.149.x) on June 17 2010, 11:02pm
Reply on June 18 2010, 7:23pm:
    I'm more non-taught, really. I can read music at a rate of about 3s/note, at best.
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