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Question: With devices today many decide to download magazines. What is your take on it? Do you like print better? If so why? I like print
Asked by AnalSeducer (66.87.0.x) on October 26 2010, 7:58pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:14am:
    I definitely prefer books, but for magazine articles I'm fine to read them online... (not that I go download them, rather just read them on their web sites etc)
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Question: do you use Visual Studio to create your Reaper, or some other environment?
Asked by andrew (70.42.89.x) on October 26 2010, 3:04pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:14am:
    I primarily use VC6 as an IDE, yeah.
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Question: Hey, given WASTE, do you appreciate the baha.bitrot.info logo?
Asked by baha (64.156.192.x) on October 26 2010, 12:53pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:13am:
    Nice. The WASTE log was rad (thanks, Taber).
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Question: long time, just wanted to let u know im okay Why r u turned off by Java? I hope your typing vids dont end up on a fetish site :p
Asked by AnalSeducer (66.87.6.x) on October 24 2010, 6:38pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:13am:
    Java is too high level and too proprietary of a platform and all of the runtimes suck.
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Question: Should you get a twitter too? twitter.com/id_aa_carmack
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on October 24 2010, 5:12pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:12am (edited at October 28 2010, 1:56pm):
    Hah maaaaybee.. I agree with this quote, btw:

    "IMO, good C++ code is better than good C code, but bad C++ can be much, much worse than bad C code." Edit: maybe I should update my blog as if it was twitter. I'll try that.
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Question: Have you ever communicated with developers of other DAW programs?
Asked by schmoe (96.55.149.x) on October 23 2010, 1:16pm
Reply on October 24 2010, 3:24pm:
    Nothing of much substance that I can recall... I think I had lunch with someone who made some guitar recording program once.
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Question: Do you collect .mkv bluray rips? :-)
Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on October 23 2010, 12:49pm
Reply on October 24 2010, 3:24pm:
    No, I've never seen such a thing.
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Question: Hey Justin! Is it possible for this to happen any time soon (or if not, could you radar it for v4)? bit.ly/b4JWJb
Asked by EvilDragon (78.0.91.x) on October 22 2010, 1:36pm
Reply on October 24 2010, 3:25pm:
    Noted.
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Question: Justin... your 96wpm is impressive... you should do battle at play.typeracer.com/
Asked by Poop (75.119.11.x) on October 21 2010, 10:26pm
Reply on October 24 2010, 3:26pm:
    Cool! Unfortunately I'm slower on a laptop keyboard (which is all I have at the moment).
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Question: layer problem: Drop shadow dissapear problem example buix.fergonez.net/stash/upload/problem.rar
Asked by ruchira (111.223.166.x) on October 21 2010, 8:22pm
Reply on October 27 2010, 2:30am:
    hmm the shadow looks ok to me?
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Question: I assume you don't care, but if i'm wrong, what do you think? phandroid.com/2010/10/21/winamp-for-android-is-now-in-beta...
Asked by roberttheiii (155.201.35.x) on October 21 2010, 5:13am
Reply on October 21 2010, 4:13pm:
    Cool. I don't have an android phone, though, and I'm turned off by java.
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Question: Sometimes things can get messy with frame pointer omission enabled. Is it important for modern software development?
Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on October 21 2010, 4:15am
Reply on October 21 2010, 4:14pm:
    I think as long as you don't need to debug, or get usable stack traces from crashes, there's only benefit to no frame pointer. Of course, most people want usable stack traces (I know I do).
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Question: (thx for the previous tips!) is tinyurl.com/32xno4y up to date ?
Asked by frenchos (93.182.199.x) on October 20 2010, 11:31am
Reply on October 20 2010, 7:00pm:
    Until v4, close enough.
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Question: It's a fact that computer-related work really hurts eyes. How do you manage this situation?
Asked by asafonov (213.145.2.x) on October 20 2010, 5:28am
Reply on October 20 2010, 7:01pm:
    Lots of breaks, walks outside, etc.
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Question: layer problem: new code worked! but final layer does not contain shadows. my images have shadows.
Asked by ruchira (202.129.235.x) on October 19 2010, 11:19pm
Reply on October 20 2010, 7:01pm:
    Dunno, if you can identify a specific combination that differs from expected, let me know.
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Question: layer problem: is it bug of lice? How to overcome it?
Asked by ruchira (202.129.232.x) on October 19 2010, 6:37pm
Reply on October 19 2010, 9:21pm (edited at October 19 2010, 9:28pm):
    I think it is a LICE bug, yeah. Working on a fix now.

    OK, got it. Sorry for the delay. in lice_combine.h, replace the following two classes with these versions:
    
    class _LICE_CombinePixelsCopySourceAlphaIgnoreAlphaParmNoClamp
    {
    public:
      static inline void doPix(LICE_pixel_chan *dest, int r, int g, int b, int a, int alpha)
      {
        if (a)
        {
          if (a==255)
          {
            _LICE_MakePixelNoClamp(dest,r,g,b,a);
          }
          else
          {
            int sc=(255-a);
    
            _LICE_MakePixelNoClamp(dest,
                r + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_R]-r)*sc)/256,
                g + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_G]-g)*sc)/256,
                b + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_B]-b)*sc)/256,
                a + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_A]-a)*sc)/256);
          }
        }
      }
    };
    class _LICE_CombinePixelsCopySourceAlphaIgnoreAlphaParmClamp
    {
    public:
      static inline void doPix(LICE_pixel_chan *dest, int r, int g, int b, int a, int alpha)
      {
        if (a)
        {
          if (a==255)
          {
            _LICE_MakePixelClamp(dest,r,g,b,a);
          }
          else
          {
            int sc=(255-a);
    
            _LICE_MakePixelClamp(dest,
               r + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_R]-r)*sc)/256,
               g + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_G]-g)*sc)/256,
               b + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_B]-b)*sc)/256,
               a + ((dest[LICE_PIXEL_A]-a)*sc)/256);
          }
        }
      }
    };
    
    
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Question: Hey! Just out of curiosity, do you remember my page "Blex's Page of Good Mp3" ?? I'm (somewhat) making a comeback www.blex.org !
Asked by Blex (65.27.94.x) on October 19 2010, 6:29pm
Reply on October 21 2010, 4:15pm:
    Sounds slightly familiar but only slightly...
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Question: your typing doesn't look like QWERTY... are you using Dvorak?
Asked by Poop (67.88.171.x) on October 18 2010, 7:29am
Reply on October 19 2010, 10:55am (edited at October 19 2010, 10:56am):
    It is QWERTY, I only know, and have only known, the big Q.
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Question: thanks for your kboard videos ! But is this that easy when you're writing code ? (numbers/symbol/text)
Asked by fredv (195.6.68.x) on October 18 2010, 4:52am
Reply on October 19 2010, 10:56am:
    Yeah pretty similar -- I know all of the modifiers (I never have to look to see that & is shift-7 etc).
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Question: layer problem: all i want is overwrite one layer to another with alpha. Each layer contain images and last layer has all img
Asked by ruchira (202.129.232.x) on October 17 2010, 6:52pm
Reply on October 19 2010, 10:57am:
    Just be careful when blitting using LICE_BLIT_USE_ALPHA to a surface which will be the source of a blit using LICE_BLIT_USE_ALPHA, because often you may end up with alpha values you don't expect? Maybe.
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