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Sander Rossel wrote: I vote to make the hurdy gurdy popular again!
Your wish is my command! At over 3 million views, I've done pretty good!  (No, that's not me - I'm just pretending to take responsibility for someone else's accomplishment!)
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Not bad at all!
However, I just searched for "Cardi B" and her latest videos have 73M, 35M, 330M (with Bruno Mars) and 895M(!) views.
The hurdy gurdy still has a long way to go 
Check out Patty Gurdy[^], she makes songs using the hurdy gurdy and promotes the instrument 
She's far more skilled than Cardi B and a lot nicer to look at, but her top songs "only" have 9M views 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Check out Patty Gurdy[^]
Sander Rossel wrote: but her top songs "only" have 9M views
It's a pop world out there. I won't go into the dysfunctional recording industry / radio station buffoonery that keeps this system in place... 
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thanks, that's delightful; i have listened to the original Gotye/Kimbra "art song" [^]
many times ... find it fascinating visually as well as audibly.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Was a big fan of Gotye's version, so was expecting to hate this, but....
This sounds more like the original version, than the original version! Loved it.
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If you enjoy Medieval music, chekck out the playlist at Kalenda Maya - YouTube[^], and listen to those performed by the group Kalenda Maya. They are truly great, and try to do the music in the original style (as far as we can know what that is!) - the instrument builder of the group has been studying old stone sculptures of musicians playing instruments now forgotten, and made reconstructions. (Yes, they are truly professional guys!)
(I really should refer to Kalenda Maya in the past tense: They made their recordings in the 1980s and 1990s.)
The playlist includes other old music performances as well, but few of them as origial style and high quality as those by the Kalenda Maya group.
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Why are they called "missiles" when you want them to hit?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Do projectiles ever hit their due date? Then why should missiles hit their targets?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Do projectiles ever hit their due date?
Depends on how agile they are.
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Are they controlled from a hit radio station?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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They don't wanna hit the isles when the big cities are still there.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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It's like the old "Why do we park in driveway and drive on parkway".
In other words, "Because".
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Well now you're getting into American / British English again, and look where that got us in CCC today!  I've never driven on a parkway in my life (not knowingly, anyway...)
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A parkway (in NY, at least) is a road designation, typically but not certainly, a highway) that does not allow commercial vehicles. Essentially cars only.
The original plan also had a lot of trees involved, making them a rather pleasant place to drive, visually (traffic notwithstanding).
As for UK vs US English. We are on this side of the Atlantic. Just another pleasant reminder that we have 3000 miles to separate us from the soccer hooligans and "The Guardian" - so embrace it!
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Cheers, wasn't aware of that meaning of "parkway". I can't see it catching on over here (the concept, not the word) - there'd be endless arguments over the definition of a commercial vehicle. Where I live there are rules that prevent commercial vehicles parking in certain places overnight, and that causes no end of problems. (e.g. freelancers who use their only vehicle as their "car" yet it's a van; or people who drive half-cabs / pickups because it suits their lifestyle etc.). Presumably if you break down on a parkway you have to push your car off?? 
Wish I was separated from the Grauniad [sic] by 3000 miles...
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NY State, at least, makes it pretty clear. No trucks, a pickup, though, is a personal/family vehicle (see "redneck"). Now any vehcile can become a commercial vehicle by getting commercial plated instead of passenger plates. They differ by the big word "commercial". If you have those plate, even on a car, your out of luck (if they notice and stop you). Motorcycles are aloud. Cars with trailers (like a U-Haul or boat) are not allowed).
Now as for emergency service - such commercial vehicles are allowed when needed to attend an emergency - they're classified as emergency service vehicles and so common sense reigns (or rains or reins, if you prefer!).
Anyway - bring the classification before parliament and you will keep them busy enough to prevent them from doing other harm, elsewhere.
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then wouldn't skittles skip?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Because when they miss, the manufacturer can point to the name as a disclaimer.
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And why do we always refer to a "near miss" when we really mean a "near hit"?
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What is the love affair with var? I see sample code where they do something like
var url = "http://someapi";
This feels lazy to me but I am open minded and am curious if I am missing something. Is there some benefit to declaring most things var instead of what they actually are? In the case above, a string.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The only benefit is that if you don't understand types then there is a chance your code will work using var even though you don't know why. Also I've found some common style tools dictate you should use var. I don't mind it for
var name = "Blah";
or
var people = new List<Person>();
but I hate it when people use it for things like
var data = SomeFunction();
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In C++
auto i = small integer
auto v = some complex STL type
auto l = some big elephanting lambda
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I use auto, the C++ equivalent, whenever it will deduce the correct type.
- It forces you to initialize the variable.
- If the variable is initialized by calling a function, and that function's return type changes, the code might not even be affected.
- Some type names are long or complicated, and I hate spilling lines.
Some argue that it makes the code harder to understand because the reader has to figure out the type. My counterargument is that the reader doesn't understand how the code fits into the system if this is the case.
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You are going on a dangerous path. It leads you to the days when an insignificant dot was significant:
auto i = 2;
auto j = 3;
auto k = i/j;
auto f = 2./j;
Besides "auto" has four letters and "int" has three; it's not energy efficient 
Mircea
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