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Contract financial developer at a large bank in Charlotte, NC.
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Correct phrase for „Chain of equations“ @JoachimBreitner, „traduttore, traditore.“ Gleichungskette is clearly superior. In this case, especially, the (mechanical) "translator (is a) traitor." |
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Correct phrase for „Chain of equations“ xdict.net/en/continued%20equality translates it as "Fortsetzung Gleichstellung." |
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15h |
answered | Correct phrase for „Chain of equations“ |
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answered | “To flow or cause to spread every part of the body”? |
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May 16 |
answered | Q: One of this and that vs One of this or that |
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May 14 |
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Can I use the “ll” contraction with proper names? +1 for the register observation. |
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May 9 |
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How to express reduction from 10 or 100 billion to 1 billion Decimate could describe a reduction of a population by 1/10th. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29. But Josh's "Order of Magnitude" sounds more scientific. From 100 billion to 1 billion would be "two orders of magnitude smaller." |
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May 9 |
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The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming @ObmerkKronen, please dial down the sarcasm. The user sees neither comments nor variable names. The compiler won't let you misspell keywords. The Eclipse plug-in that I described in the answer may help you spell comments and variable names better. While you said, "I am passing my code in a spell checker" apparently you meant "I am passing my string literals through a spell checker." Understanding your question depends on whether you think both i++; and "meta-tag" are code. (I think the former is code and the latter is not code, but rather a string literal; you call them both code). |
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May 9 |
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The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming @tchrist Code <> Comments. /* Comments mispelled wil halve no affect on UI */ On any modern IDE, a misspelled code fragment will have a wavy underline. To use Hellion's example, if I correctly spelled the variable as ItemAnalysis, then IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, et al. will not compile your code until you knuckle under and misspell it. |
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May 8 |
answered | The ( changed ) meaning or classification of words in programming |
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May 4 |
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Technicalities about “%”? Thank you, Edwin. Yes, you are observing my US sensibilities as to subject-verb agreement. I might substitute "About 90% of the zebras are..." and "About 90% of the question is..." to work on both sides of the pond. |
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May 4 |
answered | Technicalities about “%”? |
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May 2 |
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Difference between “spicy” and “hot” There's an episode of Star Trek Voyager in which Tuvok remarks that the plomeek soup (prepared by a Talaxian) was unpalatably piquant. (en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Talax-ilzay). If only humans had a comparable grasp on their own language as a Vulcan. From chakoteya.net/Voyager/113.htm: TUVOK: It is rather (cough) piquant. NEELIX: It is zesty, isn't it. I tried following the recipe in the computer's databank but it seemed so bland, so I took the liberty of spicing it up a bit. Call it plomeek soup a la Neelix. |
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Apr 30 |
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A water circle of few radius is around the park For the shape of the water: english.stackexchange.com/q/39196/3306 |
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Apr 29 |
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Ignorantly dishonest Delusional would not work here; the speaker is repeating a falsehood unknowingly. Bing defines delusion as "a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of a psychiatric condition." The speaker may have a "persistent false belief," but at the moment of the utterance does not have "strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of a psychiatric condition." |
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Apr 29 |
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Ignorantly dishonest @PersianCat, there are at least two aspects to the lie: the information content and the frame of mind of the speaker. I agree that the lie conveys incorrect information content. But the interesting part of the question is when the speaker does not know that the information content was incorrect. Perhaps the OP is highlighting the frame of mind of aspect with an "incorrect lie." S/he might be describing a lie where the utterer speaks incorrect information unwittingly, which seems to have less moral problems with knowingly conveying incorrect information in order to deceive. |
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Apr 29 |
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Ignorantly dishonest I am quoting the OP here. "Incorrect lie" may be redundant, but perhaps the OP is contrasting with a "baldfaced lie" or a "prevarication." |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Ignorantly dishonest |
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Apr 29 |
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Ignorantly dishonest How about journalist. |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Verb for 'retrieval of wealth' |
