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As many times as you like. They fire in order of declaration.

$(document).ready() will fire when the document is ready (when it’s all loaded by the browser). The other one will fire as soon as that part of the script executes.

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“They fire in order of declaration." No, they fire in order of execution (the order in which you executed the ready or hyper-overloaded $ function). You can declare your function you pass into those anywhere. (A small point, but precision can really matter with these things.) http://jsbin.com/ulevi3
$(function() { ... }) is actually equivalent to $(document).ready(function() { ... })
The other one? Which other one` The first one? It is exactly the same, just shorthand syntax.