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by iends 13y ago
Do you have a source? Mandela himself was pretty clear on violence being a tool to effect change.
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by iends 13y ago
Ghandi may disagree. Maybe not, I'm weak on history. I don't agree the end justifies the means, maybe you do, it's far too easy to get into a debate on morality in these topics. :)
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by iends 13y ago
War is terrible, no matter what. The laws Mandela broke were not the same ones he thought were unjust, at least, it seems he broke a superset of the laws he thought were unjust. He did this as a means to an end. I'd like to say I belie
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by iends 13y ago
Can you elaborate? When I visited South Africa, a few white people used it to refer to the non-whites. I do not know if they were just trying to be descriptive or discriminatory. Perhaps it didn't mean what I thought it meant.
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by iends 13y ago
I don't know anything about the laws being enforced. My point was, it's hard to argue that "the moral thing to do" is to harm others or destroy property.
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by iends 13y ago
There seems to be revisionism on both sides. Before yesterday did not know that Mandela started the armed branch of the ANC which actively bombed government buildings and while Mandela was in prison (and maybe not involved) bombed public pl
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by iends 13y ago
Well, I think many are just pointing out he was classified as a terrorist by the United States until 2008.
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by iends 13y ago
Mandela was more than happy to use violence against the government as a tool in his cause for equality (although later he seemed to regret the need for it). Using violence, he broke reasonable and justified laws. Laws such as planting bombs
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by iends 13y ago
cleverrun uses data from Run Keeper? I'm assuming it can pull in information from my Garmin somehow?
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by iends 13y ago
Not the OP, but it probably has the same benefits, but it takes MUCH longer.
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by iends 13y ago
Craft a narrative about your startup experiences that addresses any concerns the hiring company may have. For example, when the startup I worked for ended abruptly while I was out of the country (and came back without a job), it was easy fo
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by iends 13y ago
I play chess, but not very often anymore. In my peak I drew an IM during a simul on ICC, but probably was only rated 1800-1900. I stopped studying it and took up the violin because I got tired of sitting by myself for hours. With music I ca
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by iends 13y ago
Ah, yes, but since I'm an American the idea of learning a foreign language was not impressed on me as I was growing up. Contrast this with some Europeans I run into on my travels and they speak 2, 3, & 4 languages.
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by iends 13y ago
Sadly I do not speak Russian. I often wonder what great things I miss out only only speaking English.
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by iends 13y ago
Armenia requires chess in schools for at least two hours a week ( http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/07/chess-d... ) and they consistently are one of the top countries in the Chess Olympiad.
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by iends 13y ago
Isn't that what the letter was saying?
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by iends 13y ago
I realize that Wikpedia is the source of all information in the world but IBM has created or contributed to a considerable number of interesting things more recent: - Eclipse - Dojo - Apache Software Foundation (Apache WebServer, etc) - Pow
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by iends 13y ago
Except his name is changed in almost every country, so it's not "dumbing down": Germany - Walter Norway - Willy France - Charlie Denmark - Holger Israel - Effi Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/22414
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by iends 13y ago
Paltry sum for book publishers, maybe. It's too easy to self publish these days. Several HN posters have written there own books in a relatively short period of time and made >25-50k, which is probably better than their hourly rate.
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by iends 13y ago
There comes a point where the tax advantages of forming a company outweigh doing a sole proprietorship. Based on my circumstances, my accountant informed me that that number was less than 100k of taxable income. Certainly this is in the ran
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by iends 13y ago
Is there any good material on learning the modern Java stack? I know Java SE from using it quite a bit in college, but it seems beyond that everything is geared towards JEE.
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by iends 13y ago
The difference in speed between Python and PHP should not be a deciding factor in choosing between the two web frameworks. Many of the core PHP functions are implemented in C directly, so they are very fast, but once you add a framework int
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by iends 13y ago
Learning a language is all about your goals. Do you want to work in a domain where execution time is the most important factor, even more than developer time? Games, finance, system software, etc often use C++ because speed and control over
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by iends 13y ago
Used to be Joel on Software forums, but it's basically dead these days.
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by iends 13y ago
This makes me sad to read, but I had a similar thought when I was seriously studying chess (I'm only an 1800-1900 player though.) I ultimately abandoned chess, with the occasional blitz match on ICC these days. I was spending 2-3 hours
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by iends 13y ago
Actually, Anand is in top 3 strongest players in the world. Aronian might be better than him but Anand is certainly better than Gelfand, Caruana, Grischuk, Nakamura, & Kramnik. All these players have higher ratings. The author is too hu
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by iends 13y ago
Anand is older and has less incentive to play in open tournaments when he gets a huge payout for defending his title every 1-2 years. He's playing just enough chess to stay sharp, and saving all his analysis/novelties/hard wo
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by iends 13y ago
I'm surprised the guy writing this is a US national master, he should know better. 1) There is a huge difference in winning a round robin tournament vs. a head to head match in chess. The psychology is completely different. Anand has p
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by iends 13y ago
What is your goal?
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by iends 13y ago
These are excellent beginner books.

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