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I nearly got a job with them back around 2001. At the time they were revamping their development group. I had written some plug-ins for Winamp so I familiar wi

I nearly got a job with them back around 2001. At the time they were revamping their development group. I had written some plug-ins for Winamp so I familiar with the plug-in structure. It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction.

Y_Y 5y ago
> the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple. A tale as old as time.
- andrew_ 5y ago
  Is it bad that I start hearing the Aladdin (1992) soundtrack whenever I read that line?
  - khedoros1 5y ago
    Not Beauty and the Beast?
  - smolder 5y ago
    A whole new world, a new fantastic paradigm! No more structs, Or bad raw pointer luck, I will use the whole damn STL. A whooole neeeeww woooooorld!
    - asveikau 5y ago
      A whole operator new world? (Apologies.)
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - dkonofalski 5y ago
    Yes, it is bad. You got the wrong movie. ;)
  - jamesfmilne 5y ago
    Written in C Written in C Darling it’s better, down near the metal Take it from me!
bluedino 5y ago
> The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction. Pretty sure the original author hung out in #winprog (EFnet IRC), I wasn't a great Windows programmer but I remember him showing off how he created the skinnable interface and everything. I also remember spending a half hour downloading a Rob Zombie MP3, using Winamp to play it, and wondering what the big deal was :)
- spicybright 5y ago
  There's something special about how limited media availability was back then. Made every track you could manage to get your hands on really special!
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    I guess we are replicating this today with vinyl.
    - ConceptJunkie 5y ago
      Some people are. Probably not folks who actually came up in the age of vinyl. The only plans I ever have for using my turntable again is to digitize some obscure stuff that I'll probably never find on more modern media.
      - unixhero 5y ago
        There is some sense of mindfulness in the physicality of listening to a vinyl record.
    - spicybright 5y ago
      Def. It's interesting because now we have to willingly limit ourselves to get the same effect. I actually wish we tried this a bit more with news, social media, etc.
- IggleSniggle 5y ago
  As a kid with plenty of time but without access to either a car or a credit card, and with plenty of experience with MIDI and a little with WAV, being about to download an mp3 was absolutely mind-blowing.
astrange 5y ago
> It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. I had that experience with Aegisub; there's always a lot of real work to do on video and subtitles, but whenever I looked at the IRC channel the developer was thinking of new C++y ways to abstract the factory visitors.

Y_Y 5y ago

> the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple. A tale as old as time.

andrew_ 5y ago
Is it bad that I start hearing the Aladdin (1992) soundtrack whenever I read that line?
- khedoros1 5y ago
  Not Beauty and the Beast?
- smolder 5y ago
  A whole new world, a new fantastic paradigm! No more structs, Or bad raw pointer luck, I will use the whole damn STL. A whooole neeeeww woooooorld!
  - asveikau 5y ago
    A whole operator new world? (Apologies.)
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- dkonofalski 5y ago
  Yes, it is bad. You got the wrong movie. ;)
- jamesfmilne 5y ago
  Written in C Written in C Darling it’s better, down near the metal Take it from me!

bluedino 5y ago

> The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction. Pretty sure the original author hung out in #winprog (EFnet IRC), I wasn't a great Windows programmer but I remember him showing off how he created the skinnable interface and everything. I also remember spending a half hour downloading a Rob Zombie MP3, using Winamp to play it, and wondering what the big deal was :)

spicybright 5y ago
There's something special about how limited media availability was back then. Made every track you could manage to get your hands on really special!
- nebula8804 5y ago
  I guess we are replicating this today with vinyl.
  - ConceptJunkie 5y ago
    Some people are. Probably not folks who actually came up in the age of vinyl. The only plans I ever have for using my turntable again is to digitize some obscure stuff that I'll probably never find on more modern media.
    - unixhero 5y ago
      There is some sense of mindfulness in the physicality of listening to a vinyl record.
  - spicybright 5y ago
    Def. It's interesting because now we have to willingly limit ourselves to get the same effect. I actually wish we tried this a bit more with news, social media, etc.
IggleSniggle 5y ago
As a kid with plenty of time but without access to either a car or a credit card, and with plenty of experience with MIDI and a little with WAV, being about to download an mp3 was absolutely mind-blowing.

astrange 5y ago

> It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. I had that experience with Aegisub; there's always a lot of real work to do on video and subtitles, but whenever I looked at the IRC channel the developer was thinking of new C++y ways to abstract the factory visitors.