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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: So that we can learn vicariously through someone who has used subversion, why is GIT a better starting point for vc? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on November 2 2010, 10:51am Reply on November 3 2010, 7:49pm: The biggest advantage is that Git actually works for complex situations. SVN is great if you do very linear development, but the moment you are working in multiple branches and need to continually keep them up to date with respect to eachother, it either fails miserably or is a huge pain. Git, on the other hand, will let you trivially merge and remerge updates from a branch into another branch. We do this pretty much every day at this point. In SVN it would be a nightmare (and we'd avoid the situation to begin with). Other advantages of Git include being INSANELY faster, having the entire repository local (for backup and quick searching/checkouts/etc), smaller backup sizes (our repository in SVN was 450MB after being compressed, in Git it is 170mb without needing to use an external compressor), etc. Comment... Question: vim or emacs ever/much ? Asked by semiquaver (76.173.102.x) on November 2 2010, 7:59am Reply on November 2 2010, 8:31am: vim whenever I'm not using vc6's IDE. Emacs never, or only on accident. Comment... Question: Did you ever program your TI calculator? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on November 1 2010, 4:55pm Reply on November 2 2010, 8:32am: Yes, but only in it's built-in language (the fancy stuff involved writing assembly and copying it to the device via the pc cable, which I never really did) Comment... Question: what are you driving these days? Asked by blowery (24.25.141.x) on November 1 2010, 10:45am Reply on November 1 2010, 12:39pm: Not driving much lately. When I do it's either a 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 cargo van, or a 2006 Audi A3. Comment... Question: Do you use sugar with your coffee? Asked by _gio (62.103.65.x) on October 31 2010, 3:07pm Reply on November 1 2010, 4:12am: No, coffee is not supposed to be sweet. Tea, however, is another story. Comment... Question: have there really been no questions in the last three days?! Asked by andrew (70.42.89.x) on October 31 2010, 1:44pm Reply on November 1 2010, 4:12am: I guess not! Comment... Question: What is the "2d framebuffer" and why is direct3d/draw better at accessing it than say, GDI? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on October 27 2010, 10:03am Reply on October 28 2010, 1:53pm: I guess the lines between 2D and 3D are getting closer these days, with things like Aero in Vista/7. DirectDraw presumably provides less complexity between your bits and the screen, of course if you are windowed it needs to get clipped to screen, and if colorspaces need to be converted then that adds overhead too, so who knows how big the differences are. Comment... Question: shadow problem: can you post image of your result? Asked by ruchira (202.129.232.x) on October 27 2010, 7:20am Reply on October 28 2010, 1:54pm: http://stashbox.org/1022051/110928165435-RFC-Frame.png Comment... Question: is visual studio the same thing as the platform you use? i gather msft has migrated their ide for all V languages to Studio Asked by andrew (64.62.167.x) on October 27 2010, 3:39am Reply on October 28 2010, 1:55pm: Sort of, but I use the old version. Comment... Question: visual c++ or visual c# for someone who is starting the transition to windows programming from a PHP dev background? Asked by andrew (70.42.89.x) on October 27 2010, 3:28am Reply on October 28 2010, 1:56pm: I dunno, writing windows apps in C/C++ is a huge pain at first. C# might be better, but where you end up is meh. Comment... 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) Comment... 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. Comment... 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). Comment... 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. Comment... 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. Comment... 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. Comment... 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. Comment... 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. Comment... 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). Comment... 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? Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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