The idea that someone should refrain from publishing a blog post about _anything_ unless they are a certifiable expert is not reasonable. Many people (correctly) write to learn, and even if they are publishing just to "present themselves as experts", it's on the reader to determine value.
In a world where there was less false bullshit people believed smoking is fine and sugar is healthy.
Amount of false bullshit doesn’t make qualitative difference.
Only difference to make is that people should not take something as truth just because it is written in a book or in a blog post or if person has a degree or not.
> This is true of most of almost all living technogies.
It's not really true for any other programming language. If I'm an expert in Java 8, I can build and ship a product using it. I don't need to be up-to-date in my knowledge of Java 17. Same holds for almost every language.
Javascript is an exception because you don't get to decide which version to deploy, so you have to constantly be keeping up with it.
It’s the opposite problem with JavaScript. JavaScript almost always going to be backwards compatible. But, you’re right, because you can’t control the environment you’re going to be perpetually using “new” features that are 2-5 years old.
For example, I can still run my projects from 2004 but I'll have to wait until 2028 to widely deploy my bleeding edge projects from 2024.
Hah, saw that you edited the url. These government naming schemes are designed to fail. Why do they pick these absolute terms like "free" when there will clearly be some new thing that will be better? I'm waiting for the next version of REAL id, a realer id.
For real. I did some reading to try to understand the rationale. I _think_ Free File is a general program which lots of "services" can participate in, including TurboTax. Direct File is akin to (but maybe not actually the same as) a IRS offering in the Free File program.
As engineers I feel we should show a little bit of sympathy for difficulties involving naming ;)
In all seriousness though, Free File pretty much does what it says on the tin (allows low-income taxpayers to file for free); it has existed since 2003; and it has been pretty successful all things considered (Intuit and H&R Block's best efforts notwithstanding). I think it's a reasonable name.
Typical government product launch website. As far as I can tell, they don’t provide a link to where the service will be available or date of availability despite it being tax season. I guess you are to check back if you’re potentially eligible or sign up for the newsletter.
Not sure if it's meant to be a joke, but the site for that responsive preview boookmarklet does Not look right on mobile. The title text spills off the right side of my screen.
