[#392128] negative grep — Matt Lawrence <matt@...>

A bit of syntax that I have never picked up. How do I use grep to exclude

14 messages 2012/01/12
[#392129] Re: negative grep — K Clair <kclair@...> 2012/01/12

biglist !~ /bar/

[#392135] Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...>

Hello,

16 messages 2012/01/12
[#392144] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...> 2012/01/12

IMHO ~PERHAPS~ the begin rescue is not working because the exception

[#392146] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/01/12

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392147] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/01/12

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Peter Vandenabeele <peter@vandenabeele.com

[#392154] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Panagiotis Atmatzidis <ml@...> 2012/01/12

Hello,

[#392161] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...> 2012/01/13

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis

[#392162] Re: Problem with "Exception" - suddenly stopped working — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/01/13

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392242] The Better Code — Intransition <transfire@...>

Which would you judge to be the better code?

15 messages 2012/01/16

[#392252] Which library to write a parser — thomas carlier <carlier.thomas@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2012/01/16

[#392262] uniq with count; better way? — Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@...32.com>

a = [4,5,6,4,5,6,6,7]

42 messages 2012/01/16
[#392266] Re: uniq with count; better way? — Sigurd <cu9ypd@...> 2012/01/16

The first that came to my mind.

[#392268] Re: uniq with count; better way? — Adam Prescott <adam@...> 2012/01/16

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 16:00, Sigurd <cu9ypd@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392277] Re: uniq with count; better way? — Magnus Holm <judofyr@...> 2012/01/16

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 17:04, Adam Prescott <adam@aprescott.com> wrote:

[#392287] Re: uniq with count; better way? — "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...> 2012/01/17

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392289] Re: uniq with count; better way? — "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...> 2012/01/17

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392291] Re: uniq with count; better way? — "Abinoam Jr." <abinoam@...> 2012/01/17

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392303] Re: uniq with count; better way? — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/01/17

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Abinoam Jr. <abinoam@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392351] Re: uniq with count; better way? — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/01/18

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Peter Vandenabeele

[#392286] Parsing log with date time entry — Christopher Graves <gravescl@...>

The log file looks like this

24 messages 2012/01/16

[#392406] Name directory with a variable — Alex Sweps <alexszepes@...>

Hello again everyone.

14 messages 2012/01/20

[#392429] Getting an Object to Push or Register "Itself" With a Hash During Initialization — Frank Guerino <frank.guerino@...4it.com>

Hi,

11 messages 2012/01/20

[#392460] Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Intransition <transfire@...>

So simple...

116 messages 2012/01/21
[#392464] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2012/01/21

[#392469] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...> 2012/01/21

On Jan 21, 2012 9:34 AM, "Gary Wright" <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#392471] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Su Zhang <su.comp.lang.ruby@...> 2012/01/21

On 1/21/2012 12:08 PM, Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

[#392499] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Intransition <transfire@...> 2012/01/22

So they can drop a billion transistors on a chip, have implemented 3D

[#392547] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/01/23

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Intransition <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392550] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Peter Vandenabeele <peter@...> 2012/01/23

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Robert Klemme

[#392579] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/23

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:33:20PM +0900, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

[#392581] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2012/01/23

> Even that and the '1.1'.to_dec option mentioned elsewhere seem pretty

[#392585] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/23

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:14:27AM +0900, Steve Klabnik wrote:

[#392587] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Steve Klabnik <steve@...> 2012/01/23

No, it's not a terminology difference. That's why it won't work. You

[#392590] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/23

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:45:18AM +0900, Steve Klabnik wrote:

[#392591] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...> 2012/01/23

[#392618] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Alex Chaffee <alexch@...> 2012/01/24

"Standard is better than better." -Anon.

[#392643] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2012/01/25

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Alex Chaffee <alexch@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392673] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Intransition <transfire@...> 2012/01/25

I have tried this, but recently discovered the same issues arise.

[#392743] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Garthy D <garthy_lmkltybr@...> 2012/01/27

[#392745] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2012/01/27

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Garthy D <

[#392766] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Adam Prescott <adam@...> 2012/01/27

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:05, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392776] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/27

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02:52PM +0900, Adam Prescott wrote:

[#392781] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2012/01/27

[#392805] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — "Jon Lambert" <jlambert@...> 2012/01/29

On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Gary Wright wrote:

[#392831] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...> 2012/01/30

[#392835] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/30

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:03:04AM +0900, Gary Wright wrote:

[#392837] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/01/30

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:

[#392847] Re: Microrant on Ruy's Math Skills — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/30

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:22:47PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:

[#392511] Building desktop application using Ruby and any GUI Framework — Rubyist Rohit <passionate_programmer@...>

I want to write a small desktop application on Ruby. I want the

12 messages 2012/01/22

[#392598] Web Application from Scratch - like PHP — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...>

Hi,

17 messages 2012/01/24

[#392635] A little assistance please :) — Paet Worlds II <paetilium@...>

So I'm still quite new to Ruby and so far I love it's simplicity, but I

21 messages 2012/01/25
[#392636] Re: A little assistance please :) — Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@...> 2012/01/25

On 24 January 2012 17:14, Paet Worlds II <paetilium@live.com> wrote:

[#392637] Re: A little assistance please :) — Paet Worlds II <paetilium@...> 2012/01/25

Hilco Wijbenga wrote in post #1042399:

[#392641] Re: A little assistance please :) — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/25

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:41:10AM +0900, Paet Worlds II wrote:

[#392672] Re: A little assistance please :) — Dave Aronson <rubytalk2dave@...> 2012/01/25

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 23:32, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net> wrote:

[#392711] Re: A little assistance please :) — Chad Perrin <code@...> 2012/01/26

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:43:59AM +0900, Dave Aronson wrote:

[#392818] Help please Undefined Method error — "andres d." <andres.1996.1@...>

Hi and thank you for reading this

12 messages 2012/01/29

[#392867] Multiple assignment in conditional — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>

I find this a strange Ruby error.

28 messages 2012/01/31
[#392868] Re: Multiple assignment in conditional — Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...> 2012/01/31

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com>wrote:

[#392944] Re: Multiple assignment in conditional — Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...> 2012/02/01

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:

[#392914] Re: Multiple assignment in conditional — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2012/01/31

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@gmail.com> wrote=

[#392917] PHP vs Ruby is it worth it? — Samuel Mensah <sasogeek@...>

Hi, I've been searching around for what the best language there is out

14 messages 2012/01/31

Re: Web Application from Scratch - like PHP

From: Alex Chaffee <alex@...>
Date: 2012-01-25 21:11:05 UTC
List: ruby-talk #392692
2012/1/25 Bartosz Dziewo=C5=84ski <matma.rex@gmail.com>:
> English is not my first language, but I'll dare to disagree with you
> here. "ware", or "middleware", for me looks like a perfect regular
> noun and I see no error in pluralizing it =C2=A0- =C2=A0"wares" or "middl=
ewares"
> sound just fine and keep the meaning of "multiple items of <x>", while
> "waters" or "furnitures" don't.

With all due respect, you are wrong.

A baker can sell his wares, but he cannot sell his ware.

This is an egregious, embarrassing linguistic error, on the scale of
using the wrong gender for a pronoun ("il aime son soeur") or the
wrong tense for a verb ("we will went to the movies") and if it
doesn't make your skin crawl, then you are not a bad person, but you
are also probably not a native English speaker.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun for the full scoop:

"In English, mass nouns are characterized by the fact that they cannot
be directly modified by a numeral without specifying a unit of
measurement, and that they cannot combine with an indefinite article
(a or an). Thus, the mass noun "water" is quantified as "20 liters of
water" while the count noun "chair" is quantified as "20 chairs".
However, mass nouns (like count nouns) can be quantified in relative
terms without unit specification (e.g., "much water," "many chairs")."

"software" is also a mass noun. You write a piece of software, or a
software program, never "a software".

>> They've got a great metaphor already baked in -- why not call them
>> "shelves" or "units" or "pies" or something else that goes on a rack?
>
> This is just my opinion, but I think Ruby libraries already have
> enough of clever puns with no benefit.

I agree with you there. I was kidding about the pies. :-)

(But not about "units" or "modules" or "parts" or something like that.)

 - A

P.S. Ruby itself, since it was written mainly by non-native English
speakers, also has a few linguistic groaners, like using "case" to
mean "several cases" and "accessor" to mean "writer" (as well as
"reader").

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