Comments on: Fuzziness helps keep focus http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/23/fuzziness-helps-keep-focus/ Symfony, PHP and web development directly from the horse's mouth Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:06:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Krof Drakula http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/23/fuzziness-helps-keep-focus/#comment-14 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:58:16 +0000 http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/23/fuzziness-helps-keep-focus/#comment-14 <p>True, but having a look at it it's missing some of the features I described in the post, like saying "yesterday," or "next month." It may well be my nit-picking nature, but just had to say it. ;)</p> <p>Also, something I've noticed with Last.FM, it tends to be more humanly expressive when it comes to referring to day names - when the interval is less than one week, for example, it tends to say "last Friday night" or something similar.</p> True, but having a look at it it’s missing some of the features I described in the post, like saying “yesterday,” or “next month.” It may well be my nit-picking nature, but just had to say it. ;)

Also, something I’ve noticed with Last.FM, it tends to be more humanly expressive when it comes to referring to day names - when the interval is less than one week, for example, it tends to say “last Friday night” or something similar.

]]> by: Mike Nolan http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/23/fuzziness-helps-keep-focus/#comment-12 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:20:24 +0000 http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/23/fuzziness-helps-keep-focus/#comment-12 <p>There's a function called distance_of_time_in_words() in DateHelper which does pretty much that.</p> There’s a function called distance_of_time_in_words() in DateHelper which does pretty much that.

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