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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/

_xo_on Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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.

_xo_on If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blow up.

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.

_xo_on Star Trek 1971 Text Game (2008)

If you want to try a version of Star Trek in your browser (ztrek) - http://z-machine.lilawelt.de/game/ztrek/play/

_xo_on Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

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/)

_xo_on Which programming language has the best package manager?

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.

_xo_on Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

...which does not really help without the crypto-key - even if you know a list of possible passwords you cannot test them.

_xo_on Perl One-Liners

I would also like to read it very much :)