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Ask HN: Things that suck?
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#12Matching people to jobs. The current way we do this definitely sucks, but nobody seems to be able to fix it.
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#13Skype. Everyone has it and it's so bad. Random freezes of the conversation or the window, call drops (Teamspeak has almost none), can't disable alerts for file transfers in a group chat, the search doesn't work properly (can't find words that are there) in a long chat log. I could go on. I have used many chat clients in my life, but I have never seen such a bad implementation before. It is a mystery to me why everyon…
People use it because it's still a lot more well known, convenient, and ubiquitous than the alternatives (although that isn't saying much). I prefer Google Hangouts myself, but a lot of people I deal with are familiar with Skype, and don't seem to want to switch over.
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#141. HTML (no fashionable crap like Bootstrap or flexbox is capable of giving me somethong as simple as XAML's grid, also dozens of quirks - http://wtfhtmlcss.com).
2. JavaScript (not just dynamic but weak as well + dozens of quirks - http://wtfjs.com).
3. Node.js and its hype, but at least I can avoid it.
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#15Paywalls across apps. I've got a subscription to the Economist, but I'm not logged in on Facebook, Twitter, whatever HN client I'm using, etc, so it's like I don't.
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#16Driving. I want to be able to look out the windows or work or whatever I want to do. Power. I'm so tired of my devices running out of juice. Road trips and festivals etc become much less fun when I have to continually worry about how to charge my phone or laptop. Craigslist: They shut down services like padmapper but continue to give us a totally shit interface to work with. Finding a place to live, in particular, is…
The vehicle maintenance one would be great - have an odb device that connects via bluetooth to your device, and knows when to schedule oil changes, or handle more complex issues.
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#18"Apps" - Nowadays every site I load asks me to INSTALL OUR APP! "Skip this page ?" "Are you sure you don't want the app?" Yes, I am fucking sure. My iPad has a fully capable web browser that displays graphic data 100% perfectly. Unless your app has a purpose other than being a native website, stop making your website an app. It's not an app, it's a fucking website in a wrapper and It ends up on the fourth or fifth page of my home screen.
A bookmark 99% of the time serves the purpose of these "apps" I am bombarded with. I don't want apps. This is just like the desktop in the early 90s. Make your website work in my browser, and bonus points if I can remember your web address without needing a bookmark.
When will people learn to stop blindly following trends that offer no benefit to the business or consumer??
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#19Having a physical card[1] with challenge & response codes for when using my bank and all pulic services in Denmark. I actually thought about making a simple CLI program that can OCR the card using tesseract[2], convert the output to a simple sqlite database and use GnuPG[3] to encrypt the database. The user feeds the application (probably just a simple bash script) the given challenge code, decrypts the database and is given the response code (probably just copied to the clipboard).
[1]http://i.imgur.com/2XGei96.jpg [2]https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ [3]https://www.gnupg.org/
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#20Skype. Everyone has it and it's so bad. Random freezes of the conversation or the window, call drops (Teamspeak has almost none), can't disable alerts for file transfers in a group chat, the search doesn't work properly (can't find words that are there) in a long chat log. I could go on. I have used many chat clients in my life, but I have never seen such a bad implementation before. It is a mystery to me why everyon…
I'd extend this to videoconferencing and remote meeting solutions in general. I've never found anything that works reliable, across platforms, with a simple interface, can scale to larger events, and so on. You'd think it would be a solved problem by now.