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Re:ZIL and the Z-Machine
on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @10:49PM (#8140760)
In case you want to try old z-machine games - there are several javascript interpreters.
I wrote one a while (as in - years) ago - http://z-machine.lilawelt.de/
Re:Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research
on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:06AM (#7742287)
Does it have usable bibtex support nowadays? The last time I tried using it (~4-5 years ago), that was the reason that I did not end up using it.
I build a small web application that full-text-indexed all of the papers I needed back then instead.
Re:If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blow up.
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @10:25PM (#7557361)
I am not sure how true this is anymore. As far as I am aware, for example, a lot of the equipment necessary for using tunnels as bunkers in case of war has been abandoned or removed.
At least in Germany, in the past a lot of bridged also were prepared to be blown (especially those to the east). I think this is no longer true for anything that was built after ~1990.
Re:Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:39PM (#7557232)
If you want to try a version of Star Trek in your browser (ztrek) - http://z-machine.lilawelt.de/game/ztrek/play/
Dissecting the GnuTLS Bug (with example exploit)
Re:Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream
on Saturday March 01, 2014 @08:22PM (#7327188)
Even assuming you are correct about this - CS is not one of these areas. If you go back a few decades, programming was a much more even leveled field. In the 80s, approximately 50% of all programmers were female.
(For numbers see e.g. http://blog.fogcreek.com/girls-go-geek-again/)
Re:Which programming language has the best package manager?
on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:45AM (#7070447)
They really should have added CPAN (for perl) to their list. Perl might not be the most popular language nowadays, but in my opinion, their package manager gets a lot of things right...
* centrally hosted
* mirrored all over the world
* packages are automatically checksummed & the checksum is compared on install
* is is quite easy to publish packages
and very important in my opinion
* it encourages you to write tests. Unit tests included in packages are automatically executed when it is installed. Many systems (semi)-automatically report back when the installation of a package fails. Hence you get tests on tons of platforms for your package
* pod documentation is automatically available on cpan.
Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a da...
on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @07:40PM (#6851776)
...which does not really help without the crypto-key - even if you know a list of possible passwords you cannot test them.
Re:Perl One-Liners
on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:42PM (#6851430)
I would also like to read it very much :)