iandioch | 8 years ago | on: From Facebook account takeover to an empty bank account
My bank only yesterday froze my card because it is being used in a different country and they suspect fraud.
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iandioch | 9 years ago | on: The fifty shades of Latin
This is somewhat true, but many of the accents are not as strong anymore.
The Irish language itself is interesting. Before standardisation, I'm told the Irish of the north of the island was more similar to Scots Gaelic than that of the south. Many of the regional dialects have disappeared now though.
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: Guide to Italian Bakeries
I am quite sure! Maybe I was looking in the wrong places, but all the bread was too sweet for me.
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: Guide to Italian Bakeries
When I was living in Switzerland, my biggest woe was that all of the bread seemed to be white, or sweet. I could find no good simple grainy brown bread, like at home in Ireland.
But the beer was better, so I was happy.
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: The new £1 Coin
What might be fun to try is to use a Euro 5c coin in a machine that expects 20p sterling coins. Living on the border with Northern Ireland, we figured out when I was young that the sweet machines in Northern shopping centres could be conned like that.
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
My father opted to write his maths textbook with MS equation editor. There's always a strong need for tools that aren't just for the technically minded (or HN-reading) audience.
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: πfs – A data-free filesystem
We can celebrate pi day too, just to less accuracy. The third of January?
iandioch | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
I am just on the final few pages of The Cuckoo's Egg, and was planning on finishing it tonight. I too would say that it is a fantastically written page-turner, and it has taught me a lot about the old-school networking scene.
How do the other two books you mentioned compare?
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