Makes sense.

Doesn't make sense if the previous assertion is valid. It's not like the quality/quantity/time triangle where each part directly affects the others.

counting is your friend
when constructing a haiku
5-7-5 it is

I don't believe you. Where is your proof of that? And don't tell me to google it, you are asserting something that sounds like a fantasy.

Don't worry, the other half of the population is smarter than average!
Oh, and to those posters complaining that mean!=median, they are probably completely right if when talking about mean/median intelligence. But when talking about measured IQ - completely wrong. Here, have an explanation.

You may have learned to read when you were 2, but you still havent learned to close your parantheses. Seriously, some people consider that as heinous a crime as leaving the toilet seat up!

I remember some of those games... Here's a quickly googled list if anyone's interested. Nice to have some nitpicking take you down memory lane, cheers :o)

Interesting - did you work on some titles one might have played back in the day?

Nope. Everyone I know that had one, at least bought papers where you could input cheat POKEs for infinite lives, times etc. Anecdote, I know - but still, where did you get your statistics of 'Most Spectrum owners' from?

Actually, I don't think that's the case. I've often modded something as interesting and seen it go from +3 undefined to +4 insightful (and vice versa).

Except that if you bought the phone in good faith and it then got bricked as supposedly stolen, wouldn't you take some action? If you have some trail of rightfully buying the phone (paper/electronic/witnesses), then it should get unbricked and the original owner should get the mud right back in his face.

I can't read stuff that mixes meters and feet. It requires endless calculations while reading, the end result being that I don't remember any of it afterwards.

Why would you store all the comments for an article in the same record? Makes for update/clashing hell. Just store the article id and reply-to comment-id along with each comment, and let the db/caching take care of the heavy lifting.

I somehow find it hard to believe that Skynet will run in a single process, especially given its spread out geographical locations. I bet it will be written in Erlang though.

At my company, we use something similar called Direct Web Remoting for creating Javscript client code that communicates seamlessly with a Java server.

I just did a small test on all three for the fun of it and you're right about the startup time. For a simple hello world on my machine, Ruby 1.9.2 takes on average ca 50 ms to execute, python 3.2 70 ms and Java 6 100 ms. That startup time difference is too small for user-detection and once the program starts doing anything the difference will be in the other direction.

Other things you talked about don't have anything to do with performance, so you haven't talked about use-cases in plural but only about the small amount of startup time difference.