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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#102Every period. Web period. Browser period. Ever.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#103Docker. I use it and love it every day in both dev and prod, but I also really kind of hate it. I'll keep my complaints short. There should not be a system-wide daemon. (Or any daemon). It should not require root at all (no setuid either). From outside the container, the container and its processes should be a single process (with threads). (Like glueing a bunch of processes together.) The containers should be nest-a…
I agree about the daemon. Podman is a daemonless alternative, though I've never used it myself. Strongly disagree about Docker Compose though - I actually really like the ability to compose a stack of different containers together with some simple yaml.
Haven’t used Podman in production but at home it’s a huge improvement over Docker and enjoyable to use
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#104cmd.exe on Windows - trully horrible shell. bash on *nix - less horrible then cmd.exe but still trurlly horrible anyway. I want to kill myself any time I enter any of those. PowerShell cross platform made all my cells rejoice.
cmd is the primary reason I switched from PC to Mac.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#105Google Drive.
I have no idea how a company with a search background produced software where it is impossible to find something.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#106Google Drive. I have no idea how a company with a search background produced software where it is impossible to find something.
It’s really hard to search by file extension...
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#107Desktop GNU/Linux.
Too much of a cost to test for and to set up CIs for the distros I'm targeting. There is little to no paying users there because of the fragmentation. But again, "paid support" will have lots of choices, versions, combinations and edge cases to cover. So I listed it as "unsupported: use at your own risk."
Windows and macOS have a much sainer desktop for GUI apps to test against.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#108Sysaid, Jira, the entire oracle software sphere of influence.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#109The GitHub web UI. It's. So. Damn. Slow.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#110Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense. I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)
I can't agree more, the idea that google derives an economic benefit from my work makes my skin crawl.