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sophiabella

10 Apr 2017

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Can you include more of the text?

A "tangent" is often a little side fact or comment about a topic that is related to the main point but maybe not very important.
For example: "We were learning about the past tense in English class today, but the teacher went off on a10 minute tangent about her childhood."
-The childhood of the teacher may be related to the main topic, (past tense), but it is technically off-topic.

" To drive home" can mean "to really make you understand something." I believe it is a baseball reference actually.
"This next point will really drive my argument home."

So, your speaker may be saying: - This little story/explanation that I will give you now may not be related to the main topic, but it is will help you to understand the purpose of ____.

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sophiabella

10 Apr 2017

Englisch (US)

Can you include more of the text?

A "tangent" is often a little side fact or comment about a topic that is related to the main point but maybe not very important.
For example: "We were learning about the past tense in English class today, but the teacher went off on a10 minute tangent about her childhood."
-The childhood of the teacher may be related to the main topic, (past tense), but it is technically off-topic.

" To drive home" can mean "to really make you understand something." I believe it is a baseball reference actually.
"This next point will really drive my argument home."

So, your speaker may be saying: - This little story/explanation that I will give you now may not be related to the main topic, but it is will help you to understand the purpose of ____.

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ildar-meyker

10 Apr 2017

Russisch

@sophiabella Sure, i can. But it's a little bit technical) Be ready to understand nothing)
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It includes an upfront check to see whether we even have permission to trash this item. In case you're wondering this isn't actually used to enforce this permission, that's the API's job.

In fact, that's worth a little tangent to drive home the purpose of an API. It's always the API's job to maintain its own data integrity. You shouldn't ever be able to do anything in the client code that puts your API data in a weird or broken state. For example, never leave it up to your client code to know that if you delete a list you also have to go delete all the items in the list. That's the API's job.