twowordbird's comments

Nobody pays 35 euro to travel from Geneva to Lausanne unless they are visiting.

Do you have any examples on hand of subreddits like this?

twowordbird | 10 years ago | on: Reasons to use dot graphs

Strongly disagree with replacing bar charts by scattered points with arbitrary position on the horizontal axis (2 and 3). It is very difficult to disassociate horizontal proximity from vertical proximity, and the former is meaningless and distracting here.

twowordbird | 10 years ago

Switzerland often gets bandied about in these discussions, because people see gun ownership rates and ignore the subtleties. All adult males are required to own and keep a rifle at home (with some minor exceptions). There is no "gun culture" here, people in general are very unenthusiastic and see it as a burden.

In the last 20 years they have stopped giving ammunition to keep with your military rifle, exactly because they started having problems with shootings. Switzerland is the worst possible "example" of gun ownership reducing violent crime.

twowordbird | 10 years ago | on: How Eve Online went to the edge of apocalypse and back

Any idea how you were caught in the end? Were you consolidating your isk to a single account?

twowordbird | 11 years ago | on: Microsoft makes it easier to build Minecraft Mods using Visual Studio

Awesome! Stumbling on QBasic Gorillas was my first programming experience, too!

I had an extremely similar experience, right down to the ages. My father's coworker hooked me up with Visual Basic when I was nine, and I also made a tile-based RPG, although I think I had the keyboard working. I even had multiplayer---you would select a text file on the other computer over a network share, and you would both read/write your coordinates there. It actually worked most of the time!

And then Borland C++, and up, and up :) Great memories!

twowordbird | 11 years ago

This is great fun. Very accessible.

twowordbird | 12 years ago | on: Careful with that Koolaid

Must maintain maximum APM while reading articles

twowordbird | 12 years ago

So, do paying customers ever install a hacked version? Do people who start with the hacked version ever pay?

twowordbird | 12 years ago | on: Computer Modern on the Web

Somebody always posts this comment re: Computer Modern, but I've never seen anybody offer up some of these strictly superior printing fonts (of which there are apparently many). Would you care to link some examples?

twowordbird | 12 years ago | on: Free Mathematics Books

I was curious about this, Googled for it, found it freely available from Mackay's website.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

Referenced table on page six of the PDF.

twowordbird | 12 years ago | on: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

As someone who loves Twitter gimmick accounts, I would love to hear some strategies for keeping them in the clear. Cute project!