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Why are they called "missiles" when you want them to hit?
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Do projectiles ever hit their due date? Then why should missiles hit their targets?
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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? 
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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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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.
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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
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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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Not very dangerous unless one ignores compiler warnings. Then again, I don't use floating point very often.
The main one I have to watch for is
for(auto i = 0...
which makes i an int when what might actually be called for is a size_t.
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The advantage of var is if "http://someapi" was a variable or class instance instead of a string literal and you changed its type, you would not then need to refactor the code elsewhere.
In your example it's just a case of habit probably, however it's obvious from what is on the right that it's a string.
It can sometimes make it harder to debug issues as jumping to the class definition might not always be supported in the IDE you use to debug the var url value with or have to wait for the IDE to resolve the type that the var is.
That's my take on var...
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The advantage of var is if "<a href="http://someapi">http://someapi</a>" was a variable or class instance instead of a string literal and you changed its type, you would not then need to refactor the code elsewhere.
Absolutely not true. Changing a data type and then attempting to use it elsewhere is guaranteed to cause you to have to modify code everywhere it's used. Fortunately the VS IDE is smart enough to identify those spots for you.
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obermd wrote: Absolutely not true. Changing a data type and then attempting to use it elsewhere is guaranteed to cause you to have to modify code everywhere it's used.
Even when changing from a short to a long?
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The advantage of var is if "http://someapi" was a variable or class instance instead of a string literal and you changed its type, you would not then need to refactor the code elsewhere.
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Tell me about it, I have been coding in Kotlin for an Android application and in Kotlin pretty much every type is inferred.
So the code is peppered with it when referring to a property and it can be pretty much anything.
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