Ruby on Rails

On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 10:23:02 PM UTC-8, Nate Sullivan wrote:
> I think the most natural way read the code created_at < 10.minutes.ago is "created_at is less than ten minutes ago," but that reading suggests the mistaken interpretation that created_at is fewer than ten minutes ago. The correct interpretation is that created_at is earlier than ten minutes ago. Is there a better way to write the same comparison?
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I think the real issue is that English lacks strong typing and so the comparison operater is imprecise.

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