However, if anyone is curious about why it's happening, this is what the arc code is doing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098863
If you don't follow arc, here is a python and ruby approximation of the arc challenge http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098863
https://github.com/rahulkmr/musings/blob/master/ruby/sinatra...
https://github.com/rahulkmr/musings/blob/master/python/closu...