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"In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that." | "In selling stock, the filer is not ''contradictorily'' asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that." | ||
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'''PUMP AND DUMP'''. 1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/. | '''PUMP AND DUMP'''. 1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/. | ||
| − | + | ==RAREBIT== Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker." | |
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Revision as of 10:22, 27 January 2021
Camel case
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with capitals, as in FirstSecondThird. See also: pothole case, kebab case.
Contradictorily
"In selling stock, the filer is not contradictorily asserting it is solvent; the *buyers* are saying that."
Googleability or Googlability
A measure of how easy it is to find information about a person on the Web.
Which spelling is better?
Kairos.
καιρός. "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."
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Kebab case
A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with dashes, as in first-second-third. See also: camel case, pothole case.
Pothole case. A variable-naming style that separates the parts of a name with underscores, as in first_second_third. See also: camel case, kebab case.
PUMP AND DUMP. 1. The stock manipulation trick of using rumor or purchase to inflate a stock's purchase and then selling it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump. 2. The political dirty trick of getting a crowd so excited that it charges off to wreck a building or kill someone, so it gets in trouble and discredits the movement, and then quietly leaving before the arrests and shooting. 3. A Full Service Company Offering Residential & Commercial Septic Services. https://www.pumpndumpusa.com/.
==RAREBIT== Ambrose Bierce (1911): "Rarebit n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that ris de veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker."
