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If you are willing to accept language as one of the calligrapher's tools I think you will find his workshop to be equally cluttered.

It's not as extreme as that--consider just the case where you want to share things with work friends that might not appeal to college friends. You're not acting different; you'd show the college friends if any of them asked, but you know they're bored by it so you want to keep it out of the timeline/tweets/whatev that they see.

I saw an on-going project recently that was attempting just that. They were using texts from the web to infer relationships from recognizable patterns. Like (the head of X, Y) implies X is an organization, Y is a person, and Y is the leader of X.

It would also try to learn new patterns from facts it already knew, like if it notices Jobs and Apple in a sentence it can hypothesize that sentence pattern is about a leader of a company.

For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the project or even the university, hopefully someone else has heard of this.

Yeah, the author seemed to argue "because the situation I was in while doing a job I was passionate about was unlivable, therefore pursuing any job you are passionate about will make you less happy than working some regular 9-to-5." Logical fallacy.

Paper 14 years ago

No, it will motivate developers to create add-ons that cost $2 each.

In general, your argument about a subset of products is reasonable. In a drawing app when you have to buy individual brushes it's scummy.

Paper 14 years ago

Why not have a lite / pay to get everything version, then?

> (Granted, Google's complicit to the carrier's requests here too -- however, I'm still perfectly able to install anything I want on my phone.)

This is not a valid argument for the average Android user, since they would have to root their device first. Jailbreaking an iPhone would also allow you to install anything you like.

Paper 14 years ago

$2 per tool? This is not a free app, this is a bait-and-switch. Just charge $15 for the app, guys.

What if you had written that as the response to the second question. "I understand you are curious, but that is all I will say about it," would have made it clearer and been far less pompous than "no really, trust me."

The patent system is broken, but at least this time it is a company that deserves litigation instead of some poor indie app dev. IMO Facebook is pretty high up on the list of companies with horrible policies, it's bittersweet to see such stupid litigiousness with them as the target.