jonathanhefner

Also chiming in: same thing happened to me, but they sent my account to collections without notifying me first.

When I was on the phone with the collections agent, I was very polite and told her I knew she was just doing her job. I then got her to admit that this sort of thing happens all the time with AT&T, and that a lot of her phone calls go the same way.

Since then I've suspected that AT&T's practices go beyond mere incompetence and into abusive territory.

I had the very same experience (though my use case was something akin to autocomplete), and so have a handful of other people I've spoken with. I think that has interesting implications regarding the patentability of software and algorithms.

OpenGameArt launched in 2009, several years before the Liberated Pixel Cup: http://lpc.opengameart.org/content/lpc-about

Which makes it more difficult (impossible?) to polyfill. For the time being, I see that as an anti-feature.

Yes, very interesting. Reminded of http://prog21.dadgum.com/173.html

It is a good and interesting observation, but as the benchmarks approach real-world scenarios, the difference is more than a millisecond or two.

For instance, if you're running on EC2 hardware (which is common enough) and you're executing ~20 DB queries/request (which is probably, unfortunately, common enough), the difference between Java servlets and Rails is more like 10ms.

Then what happens when more than 89 real-world users start to hit your Rails server each second?

(Note: I really like Ruby and Rails. Much more so than Java and its offerings.)