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It's long story and they told me I'd be better off just dismissing all questions ;-)
I don't think Petraeus is to blame. What can the dude do other than to call people to calm and dignity. A nice gesture of peace coming from a military man! But the media and the whole hype machine we all feed with our tweetmania about stuff like that definitely helps fuel the fire in the belly of such loosers as the Gainsville Koran burners. I can't wait to hear Chomsky on this!
The whole Koran burning business reaks of violence and provocation. Let's take the high road and give the terrorists a better example than that.
I am sure Rackspace thought long and hard before doing so. They may have wanted to pull the site out of ideological conviction but I am sure they did once they were convinced they were legally alllowed to do so.
Freedom of speech is only good as long as it doesn't turn into a violent provocation match in my opinion.
I must say I quite disagree too. I know a thing or two about Computational Linguistics and Statistical Inference is really a small potion of the corpus of work there. But the tool is funny and maybe useful nonetheless. Far from baked in my opinion though...
You are so right. I have been in the space for 15 years. Started my career at Netscape and kept going to smaller and more edgy startups since. The most stressful episodes happened at dead-in-the-water memories like RealNames and OpenHarbor. Let's put it this way though, I have learned and I am proud to say that I am now a sustainable contributor. I can keep going for a long time but there will always be something crazy about working in any entrepreneurial setting that is both my engine and a best that has to be tamed or else...
Looks really cool and very exciting to a foody like me. It would be nice though to have more details about the recipe structured into some of the posts. Some pics, titles, and details barely tell you what the recipe is... Maybe you can create incentives for some of your submitters to add the recipe and get entered into a recipe DB as well. Best recipe can receive major attention... etc.
Everything is fixable. It's just a question of time, process, testing, re-testing, etc. Is it always worth it? No.
Ok Digg is having a hard time. I feel like I witness a strange blood thirsty tone in some of the comments though. I wish Digg the best and I hope they can prove all the skeptics wrong. It's going to be tough though!