> I think it's laughable to try to draw a comparison between soldiers fucking up and causing collateral damage and the Holocaust.
That's not what you said. You said...
> the blood is on the hands of the people who started and continued the war
> not the ones who have to actually fight it.
I disagree with that statement. With the same argument, one can justify all war killings. Even the act of Nazis. We don't bring in Godwins law when discussing and comparing war and killings.
but there's a difference between being a German soldier and manning the death camp. No one takes issue with the German soldiers who invaded France -- they were doing their jobs. The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die.
You can certainly make an argument that they're the same, but I think there's a pretty clear practical distinction between the two.
Is it really much comfort to say: well, at least we're not rounding them up into death camps?
I don't find people do much discriminating between different groups of Nazis. The infantry perpetuated violence and death just as much as the death-camp members. After all, what do you think they did to the newly-conquered populations those polite infantrymen rounded up?
There's also a difference between the world 100 years ago and today. We live in a more civilized, more peaceful time. The violence in Iraq is some of the broadest and most destructive of our day.
> The problem is with the people who rounded up the innocent women and children, put them in trains, and then sent them off to die.
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The whole point of this video is about killing of innocent man, women and children by shooters who wanted to kill. Not soldiers killing soldiers. Whether they were rounded up or not, or put on a train or not shifts the focus.
The discussion is not about does this resembles the Nazis or not. It's about: are we looking for a justification for this killing by falling so low on the morality ground, that the same logic can even be used by the Nazis for justifying their killings.
In many places the vocal minority controls the media. I guess this popularity issue is not a Asian thing only. A significant large number of silent people in Germany I assume is supportive of Hitler's work --- that's what my impression is after personally talking with a limited few.
(Disclaimer: I'm German.) It is only a tiny extremist minority who is even somewhat supportive of Hitler. Even if the media was completely controlled by a vocal minority - not entirely possible in a free democracy like today's Germany - you would at least see these Nazi-leanings in election results. Not the case.
I guess that might have to do with load these search engines generate. Previosly in a thread we checked that comments posted in HN appear in google search after a minute of posting. That should create a good amount of load on HN. Multiply it for all the search engines in the wild, and PG probably have decided blocking those woun't do any harm. My guesss. Could be wrong, or it might be temporary or a mistake.
FWIW, I'm working on something similar in Lua, which uses libevent for high performance on Unix but also has a pure Lua (based on LuaSocket.select) backend for portability. I haven't tested it on Windows yet, but I don't expect any issues with running it there, and I'm planning on supporting it as a platform (for developing convenience, not performance).
It's reasonably complete, but its development is being driven by another project (a distributed filesystem of sorts), and it's still changing too much. I hope to have it released in a month or two, but I'm also in the process of buying a house, and that's keeping me plenty busy.
If you're interested, learning Lua should would be pretty straightforward. It sounds like you're already proficient in Javascript, and they have quite a bit in common.
I don't know. I read the original article and felt he was talking about building numerous cheap apps and selling those to get rich quick instead of building a single one and hopping it will take over the market. I did not felt like he was talking about spaming!
Few days back there was someone here who told us that he was getting as much as 1 thousand dollars EVERYDAY by developing many small apps for the iPhone and selling those. This is opposite of putting all your time on a single iPhone app and betting on it.
The original article was really helpful for me. I disagree with those that are getting a different message from it.
> Few days back there was someone here who told us that he was getting as much as 1 thousand dollars EVERYDAY by developing many small apps for the iPhone and selling those.
I believe that was Max (the original article author). Was it not?
Read it, you will find it interesting. The guy also wrote a small language called Duby which used Ruby like syntax but is much more faster, because he didn't include any of those slowing down features.
I think the parent is implying that while discussing with any second party, it is easier to mutually agree on which one is an issue and which one is details --- compared to discussing on the problem itself and finding a resolution.
> not the ones who have to actually fight it.
The nazis probably said the same.