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Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2015 05:08:21PM 0 points [-]

noiseless clothes

That would be a cotton T-shirt :-)

You need at least very specialized training in infiltration, poisoning, different unarmed and armed combat styles, wilderness survival...

In the same way that being a programmer requires very specialized training in microprocessor architectures, assembler, design and properties of algorithms, software architectures, standard libraries...

Comment author: polymathwannabe 09 January 2015 05:25:23PM 0 points [-]

You can teach yourself to code. You can't teach yourself to fight a dozen armed guards.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 January 2015 05:57:03PM 1 point [-]

If a ninja has to fight a dozen armed guards, the ninja has already failed :-P