$ ruby -r date -e ‘p Date.today.yday’
256
James Edward G. II
On 9/13/06, James Edward G. II [email protected] wrote:
$ ruby -r date -e ‘p Date.today.yday’
256http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer’s_day
Neat.
p ((Time.now - Time.local(2006)) / (60 * 60 * 24)).ceil
—John
On 9/13/06, James Edward G. II [email protected] wrote:
Couldn’t have told us in the morning eh?
Nice thing anyway.
Robert
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Deux choses sont infinies : l’univers et la bêtise humaine ; en ce qui
concerne l’univers, je n’en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue.
- Albert Einstein
This wouldn’t include Rails developers ?
Stuart
On 9/13/06, William C. [email protected] wrote:
James G. wrote:
And nobody got me anything! -cries-
James did. But it seems to have overflowed into the bit bucket,
leaving nothing behind. What a character!
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Stuart Yarus
Robert D. wrote:
James Edward G. II
Couldn’t have told us in the morning eh?
Nice thing anyway.
Would be more fun if it was Talk Like a Programmer Day.
Or combine it without another September “holiday” and make it Talk Like
a Pirate Programmer Day.
–
James B.
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James B. wrote:
Or combine it without another September “holiday” and make it Talk Like
a Pirate Programmer Day.
Talk like a software pirate?
I was once captured by software pirates. They made me
walk off the end of an array.
Hal
Hal F. wrote:
walk off the end of an array.
Software pirates keep throwing exceptions, too, because of
too many arrrrgs.
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James B.
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Ruby Code & Style - The Journal By & For Rubyists
http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
http://www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
Software pirates keep throwing exceptions, too, because of
too many arrrrgs.
Made me laugh. 
Thank God we just make jokes like these on this day, otherwise this
“holiday” would be totally unjustified and redundant… (Or do we?)
Grats to all,
Alvim.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, James Edward G. II wrote:
$ ruby -r date -e ‘p Date.today.yday’
256http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer’s_day
What totally amazes me is there has been over 500 edits of that simple
half page!
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