To humanize is to make something friendlier to humans. Humanizing makes things more civilized, refined, and understandable.
Questions tagged [humanize]
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How do I convert CamelCase into human-readable names in Java?
I'd like to write a method that converts CamelCase into a human-readable name.
Here's the test case:
public void testSplitCamelCase() {
assertEquals("lowercase", splitCamelCase("lowercase"));
assertEquals("Class", splitCamelCase("Class"));
…
Frederik
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How to capitalize the first character of each word, or the first character of a whole string, with C#?
I could write my own algorithm to do it, but I feel there should be the equivalent to ruby's humanize in C#.
I googled it but only found ways to humanize dates.
Examples:
A way to turn "Lorem Lipsum Et" into "Lorem lipsum et"
A way to turn "Lorem…
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Natural/Relative days in Python
I'd like a way to show natural times for dated items in Python. Similar to how Twitter will show a message from "a moment ago", "a few minutes ago", "two hours ago", "three days ago", etc.
Django 1.0 has a "humanize" method in django.contrib. I'm…
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Django humanize outside of template?
I know I can use the humanize module to convert date/time to a friendlier format in the django templates. I was wondering if I can convert those things outside the templates. For example in a views.py function or a models.py class(meaning outside of…
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Make big and small numbers human-readable
I would like to print my very small numbers in C# in a human friendly way, such as:
30µ for 3E-5 or 456.789n for 0.000000456789.
I know of the Humanize_number() function from BSD in C, but only compatible with bit ints, not floats and doubles. Is…
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How to display "x days ago" type time using Humanize in Django template?
When I do this:
{% load humanize %}
{{ video.pub_date|naturaltime|capfirst }}
I get 2 days, 19 hours ago
How can I get just 2 days without the hours. Basically if the video was published in less than a day ago then it should say X hours ago, then…
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Humanize a string in JavaScript
How do I humanize a string? Based on the following criteria:
Deletes leading underscores, if any.
Replaces underscores with spaces, if any.
Capitalizes the first word.
For example:
this is a test -> This is a test
foo Bar Baz -> Foo bar…
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How to get human readable class name in Ruby on Rails?
I am building an application with Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.0.9
I have a class like below.
module CDA
class Document
def humanize_class_name
self.class.name.gsub("::","")
end
end
end
I want the class name like "CDADocument".
Is my…
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How to properly calculate remaining time in JS using getTime() from the two dates?
I'm trying to calculate remaining time (ex: 10 years, 2 months and 10 days from today(2014/03/02) in JS using this function:
var d2 = new Date(2024, 3, 12);
var d1 = new Date();
var d0 = new Date(1970, 0, 1);
var diff = new Date(d2.getTime() -…
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Formatting Large Numbers with .NET
I have a requirement to format large numbers like 4,316,000 as "4.3m".
How can I do this in C#?
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From: "1 hour ago", To: timedelta + accuracy
Is there a function to 'reverse humanize' times?
For example, given (strings):
'1 minute ago'
'7 hours ago'
'5 days ago'
'2 months ago'
Could return (apologies for the pseudo-code):
datetime.now() - timedelta (1 minute), accuracy (60…
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What are the best ways to prevent fake registrations?
I would like to know more about the solutions to restrict registering for a website for humans only.
Captcha may seem a proper solution but as it turns out it's not as good as it sounds.
And it's not a problem if a solution is not an option for…
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How to use django.contrib.humanize in a model
I would like to use the django.contrib.humanize outside of a template, actually inside a model to humanize some dates in some text messages.
Is it possible? How can I do this?
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Python's humanize timedelta() tells me that minimum_unit is an invalid argument?
I am trying to print the approximate time difference between two dates. In the really well answered question here: Format timedelta to string several answers were given, and I can use one of those to solve my issue.
However, I really liked the…
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Forcing "humanized" names of fields to be lowercase in Rails 3
As far as I know, the accepted way to set the "humanized" names of fields in Rails 3 is to use locales:
# config/locales/en.yml
en:
activerecord:
attributes:
member:
username: 'username' # rather than 'Username'
However, I…
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