Now's the time to start. But yeah, you don't say "we're doing it my way." It probably sounds more like, I'm broke, I want to pay you back, what can we do to help me make it happen?

In my book, that makes it even worse. I can at least have sympathy for people who write and talk that way because they've never known anything else.

I love it! Just re-subscribed thanks to your comment.

Fecious?

Do you know the etymology of the word "pornography?"

It's like seeing an article titled "Online Music Sales Drop" only to have 1/3 of it be about online movie sales. Yes they're related, no that doesn't mean it was a good title.

I just read the article. In it, you assume the product could be better, as you just repeated here ("could be a lot better"). Please explain how that's not begging the question.

That was a premise of the article, that the Instant experience was a failure. Obvs, you can disagree, but that's a starting point, for an article that's mostly concerned with answering "Why"

That's why you have to insist on http://tapdny.com . (I know, it's filtered.)

I cannot understand your last sentence. Please help. "This kind of tempting?" "Eschewed?" Eclipsed? Eschewed in favor of?

There is this running gag where I use an ipad on a train and messages get garbled. Sorry, but its too funny and too late to correct. Try typing "templating" on an iPad, it will complain.

The correction is, of ourselves, "this kind of templating is being eschewed by other, newer techniques." Enlive by cgrand is the example I like to mention.

Good essay, but paragraph six is redundant.

The "earned income" credit is a negative tax ("refundable credit").

Not exactly what is meant by "negative tax" in the article. You have to earn money before you're eligible to get the credit, with the amount based on size of family. Whereas the negative tax of the article gives you more and more money the less you have. (The EIC's capped, and if you make too little money, say via only a part time job, you don't get the full credit. What the article calls a negative tax would pay you the maximum amount if you earned nothing for the year.)