I get where you're coming from but the guy above was straight up declaring Trello's death. Even with skepticism you can agree it's being too pessimistic too early.
And if it goes down a different path, there will be a hole in the market waiting for the next Trello and that's good too.
We have a few of these here in Brazil (i.e. http://www.99taxis.com/). The apps work just fine, it's the taxis that lack quality in their service. Cars are usually beaten down, dirty. Drivers are impolite, almost never use Waze or some other GPS app and the fare at night rivals Uber's.
There has been some drama regarding Uber v. Taxi around here as well (São Paulo, Brazil). One thing I know for sure is that as long as Uber's around I'll never call a taxi again.
The article isn't clear on the encryption methods used on the data transferred between the voting machine and the system that actually account votes. But it seems to me that Brazil's government is being anything but incompetent in the data security subject.
Can't wait to read the book that'll come out of the seminar.
Indeed, but the point being that Brazil is at best OK at legislating still holds. A complete rewrite is long due.
It changes too often because the original text is way outdated, so legislators keep patching it up since that's a lot easier than rewriting it from ground up.
I'm not sure if our government would come up with a compelling argument to get money from other countries. We have a history of succumbing to foreign financial pressure too easily (reflex from our weak economy), and our government does almost everything to keep a good relation with about every country out there.
We're the good neighbor that gets abused now and then for being too soft.
The thing that bothers me most, though, is how bad Brazil's government is at enforcing its law. We're kind of OK at legislating (even though our constitution remain mostly unchanged since '88), but suck at enforcing. That's one reason why there's still a lot of corruption going on in higher spheres.
Same here, but I wouldn't expect much from a jQuery plugin that implements "infinite scroll". Like I need stuff to start loading by itself whenever I reach the bottom of the page.
Also, looking at their code, the first thing I laid eyes on was this statement:
var infinity = window.infinity = {};
Which, in this context, would be the exact same as
That's a very loose interpretation of what the author meant, IMO. Actually, pragmatism in this industry leads to a series of different interpretations.
Avoiding dogma is a no-brainer, there's absolutely no advantage on being dogmatic in software development. But the pragmatism part, I think it's OK as long as being pragmatic doesn't mean carelessly building stuff without putting much thinking beforehand, in whichever methodology you chose to follow.
I do believe in testing, not just software testing, but testing in general. Let's try and test the better set of methodologies and techniques for our scenario, mashup stuff together and come up with our very own "dogma".
