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Question: Videos could be good....Just make sure the codec isn't IV50 :p That pudding video took me a while to get 'er going haha peace Asked by CheckOutChannel9 (71.142.94.x) on July 26 2010, 10:15pm Reply on July 27 2010, 6:22pm: Haha yeah IV50 is ancient. Comment... Question: Not to sound like I don't have better shit to do with my time or anything. But will you be adding more pictures sometime? :-) Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.94.x) on July 26 2010, 8:55pm Reply on July 26 2010, 9:27pm: Yeah maybe. Or videos. Comment... Question: What do you think of programming contests (TopCoder, Google Code Jam, etc.)? Ever tried one? Asked by Eric (96.11.109.x) on July 26 2010, 8:39am Reply on July 26 2010, 9:25pm: I did some ACM contest for highschool kids when I was in highschool. I don't think anybody else could use vi so it wasn't even fair. In retrospect my solutions were really ugly, but I got them done quick. Comment... Question: Hi Justin! What do you think about this project? Does it have a future? asafonov.org/widesktop/ Asked by asafonov (89.207.47.x) on July 22 2010, 10:24pm Reply on July 26 2010, 9:26pm: That's cool. I don't know what the future holds, though. Comment... Question: Wouldn't it be sweet to give reaper a spin on this: goo.gl/nBGl? Yay multi core! Asked by roberttheiii (67.221.94.x) on July 22 2010, 7:20am Reply on July 26 2010, 9:26pm: Haha. Actually an i7 is pretty hot these days. Comment... Question: How would you recommend learning windows programming to someone new to it? Win32 style? Fav resources to learn from? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on July 21 2010, 11:53am Reply on July 26 2010, 9:26pm: That's always a tough question that I have no good answer for. Someday I'll write something, but everything I write ends up being super wordy and full of unrelated nonsense. Comment... Question: whoever requested T-Rex has good taste haha. Ever seen this Documentary? Thoughts? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.94.x) on July 20 2010, 2:52pm Reply on July 21 2010, 11:36am: Let me watch that. Comment... Question: Ever been here: goo.gl/maps/21Mp? If not - I highly recommend it. Asked by roberttheiii (71.235.42.x) on July 19 2010, 3:16pm Reply on July 21 2010, 11:36am: No, I've ridden my bike past there though... Comment... Question: Aren�t you worried when your private sources codes are in server�s repository? Asked by Eric (83.78.160.x) on July 19 2010, 12:36pm Reply on July 19 2010, 2:59pm: Well, our servers are relatively private. Having said that, I'd be much more worried about losing source code than it becoming public -- losing source code would be completely catastrophic, having it go in to the wild wouldn't be a huge deal (obviously it would have some effect on our business, but nothing compared to losing code). Comment... Question: Have you deleted any unreasonable question(s) from this site? Asked by roberttheiii (67.221.94.x) on July 19 2010, 11:57am Reply on July 19 2010, 2:58pm: Yeah, I think one or two. I forget though. Comment... Question: Have you tried this? @ www.soundhound.com Asked by Dave (222.90.231.x) on July 18 2010, 10:41pm Reply on July 19 2010, 2:58pm: No, but I've tried Shazam, and I can't see paying $5 to try that software... Comment... Question: No, they don't use it at all, not targeted at them. Don't seem to have any pride in their own work either. Asked by THEMike (94.3.226.x) on July 18 2010, 1:53pm Reply on July 18 2010, 8:47pm: Any chance you can subdivide their work into little stuff that can be reused in ways they'd enjoy? For example, you might end up writing a nice XYZ library that they could use to make a tetris game with or something... Or maybe the answer is to figure out a way to get them into the software. I have no idea what it is... I'm just imagining, if I had to get motivated to work on payroll administration software... umm... I might be able to find a way (like ways of making interesting paycheck amounts?). Comment... Question: Do you think you can do this cover for your next jam session? www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4HQbRuWJUU Stay strong brotha m/ Asked by 71.142.94.x (71.142.94.x) on July 18 2010, 1:38pm Reply on July 18 2010, 8:47pm: Haha would have to ask Christophe... Comment... Question: how different is mac-coding, compared to linux and/or windows? Asked by ccernn (80.203.117.x) on July 18 2010, 12:32am Reply on July 18 2010, 11:33am (edited at July 18 2010, 1:22pm): A lot of it overlaps with linux -- OS X is very much BSD-derived, so you have a lot of common things that FreeBSD and Linux have, such as pthreads, standard file APIs, etc. Where it primarily differs is that the recommended way to build GUI stuff is now Cocoa, which is Objective C, so that takes some getting used to. Objective C isn't bad, but it is quite different in syntax from using Win32 or GTK+ for example. There is also a deprecated Carbon API, but one probably shouldn't bother with it at this point. One issue with OS X that I've found is that there are generally about 5 different ways to do the same thing, and often it's hard to figure out which one is best (or even to find most of them). Recent examples include CGBitmapContextCreateImage() -- the obvious way to do something, that is soooo unoptimal. Or if you try to draw text to a RGB buffer, there's lots of choice in how to go about it (and no clear winner). Comment... Question: If you had a large team of engineers, who were daycoders, how would you motivate them to give a shit? Asked by THEMike (94.13.238.x) on July 17 2010, 11:44am Reply on July 18 2010, 1:22pm: That's tough.. I assume then they don't much enjoy using the thing they are making? Comment... Question: Do you ever feel like you have hit a dead end, see things crumbling? Asked by Tim Kock (81.205.249.x) on July 17 2010, 11:21am Reply on July 18 2010, 1:23pm: Hmm metaphorically? Relating to programming? The nice thing about programming is that (if you use version control especially) it is easy to rewind and try a different path. Comment... Question: Do you find naps and/or breaks help productivity or are you more a 'code until you drop' person? Asked by schmoe (96.55.149.x) on July 17 2010, 7:57am Reply on July 18 2010, 1:23pm: Breaks, yes, though trying to sleep when a problem is nagging your brain is often a bad thing... I rarely nap. Comment... Question: So what do you think is the best thing to do with a substantial fortune? Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on July 16 2010, 9:49pm Reply on July 17 2010, 7:08am: )Argh, John, Will, same IP, so confusing, or something). What is the best thing? I guess that depends on your goals. So if you want to try to keep things as safe as possible, you would want to diversify; you might get treasury bonds (and not get much return on them) or municipals (carefully). Or you might want to try to make more money, and play the stock market or invest in startups... Or you might just want to try to make the world a better place and give it away or start a foundation that gives it away... What do I think is best? Who can say? Comment... Question: Do you manage your fortune yourself, or do you have a financial manager? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on July 16 2010, 6:29pm Reply on July 16 2010, 8:14pm (edited at July 16 2010, 9:20pm): Gold and AR-15s. Edit: ok this is a joke; I don't really subscribe to that mindset. However the banks as they are today pretty much disgust me. Comment... Question: Are you a fatalist or do you think it's all random or some of both? Asked by schmoe (96.55.149.x) on July 16 2010, 10:08am Reply on July 16 2010, 8:14pm: Chaotic sure, but random? 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