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Language Log » "Begging the question": we have answers
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2290, posted 2018 by peter in history language reference
There are four related issues here. First, how did "begging the question" come to be a technical term for (a certain kind of) circular reasoning? Second, do people really need a way to talk about circular reasoning, anyway? Third, why did "begging the question" get re-purposed in common usage to mean "dodging the question" or "raising the question", rather than simply subsiding, along with the rest of the terminology of medieval logic, into the midden heap of obsolete idioms? And fourth, should you go with the flow and use "beg the question" to mean "raise the question", or should you fight for the traditional usage, or what? I'll take up these issues one at a time.
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Tips för dig som ska hyra bil på semestern i sommar
https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/det-ska-du-tanka-pa-nar-du-hyr-bil-under-semestern/, posted 2018 by peter in howto inswedish list reference travel
Sommartid ger möjligheter till en bättre mobilitet genom att hyra bil. Men det finns en hel del att tänka på vid hyra av bil för att inte ledigheten i efterhand ska solkas av tvister med biluthyraren om pengar.
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Giving and Receiving — Learn Japanese
www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/giving_receiving, posted 2018 by peter in japan language reference
Giving and receiving whether it’s objects or favors is a bit more complicated in Japanese because you need to be aware of the social status between the giver and the receiver. Basically, there are two words for giving and one word for receiving listed below.
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GitHub - dsignr/disallowed-usernames: An open source database of disallowed usernames for software projects to prevent phishing
https://github.com/dsignr/disallowed-usernames, posted 2018 by peter in development list reference security
The goal of this project is to create a universal database of disallowed usernames for web applications. This repository contains a list of keywords that should be banned/disallowed to prevent users from registering with, on your software projects and apps to prevent impersonation and phishing on your platform.
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Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-explained-for-dinosaurs-f695e9747b70, posted 2018 by peter in development javascript reference
The goal of this article is to provide a historical context of how JavaScript tools have evolved to what they are today in 2017. We’ll start from the beginning and build an example website like the dinosaurs did — no tools, just plain HTML and JavaScript. Then we’ll introduce different tools incrementally to see the problems that they solve one at a time. With this historical context, you’ll be better able to learn and adapt to the ever-changing JavaScript landscape going forward. Let’s get started!
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A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles « null program
nullprogram.com/blog/2017/08/20/, posted 2017 by peter in automation development howto reference
In my first decade writing Makefiles, I developed the bad habit of liberally using GNU Make’s extensions. I didn’t know the line between GNU Make and the portable features guaranteed by POSIX. Usually it didn’t matter much, but it would become an annoyance when building on non-Linux systems, such as on the various BSDs. I’d have to specifically install GNU Make, then remember to invoke it (i.e. as
gmake
) instead of the system’smake
.I’ve since become familiar and comfortable with make’s official specification, and I’ve spend the last year writing strictly portable Makefiles. Not only has are my builds now portable across all unix-like systems, my Makefiles are cleaner and more robust. Many of the common make extensions — conditionals in particular — lead to fragile, complicated Makefiles and are best avoided anyway. It’s important to be able to trust your build system to do its job correctly.
This tutorial should be suitable for make beginners who have never written their own Makefiles before, as well as experienced developers who want to learn how to write portable Makefiles.
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How to Center in CSS
howtocenterincss.com/, posted 2017 by peter in css howto html reference webdesign
Centering in CSS is a pain in the ass. There seems to be a gazillion ways to do it, depending on a variety of factors. This consolidates them and gives you the code you need for each situation.
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Conditionals | Learn Japanese
www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/conditionals, posted 2017 by peter in japan language reference
This whole section is dedicated to learning how to say "if" in Japanese. Oh, if only it was as simple as English. In Japanese, there's four (count them, four) ways to say "if"! Thankfully, the conjugations are sparse and easy especially since you don't have to deal with tenses.
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The 1071 hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2
https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/unicode/tablemain.html, posted 2016 by peter in history language list reference unicode
The descriptions of the signs mostly follow Gardiner's publications. However, an attempt was made to achieve a greater consistency.
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Perfect responsive images: HTML5 and Bootstrap 4
inspire.blufra.me/html5-element-and-bootstrap-4-media-queries/, posted 2016 by peter in css howto html reference webdesign
Let’s harness the power of these new media queries to serve an image of the right size based on the device a user views our site on. We’re going to save a lot of bandwidth for the small devices, and serve a beautiful large image for larger ones.
We’ll do that by using the HTML5 picture element and its powerful source tag and media and srcset attributes.
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