Concur, ADP, and Workday are all really bad.
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#112Apple CarPlay is an absolute piece of garbage. It always hangs on the “connecting to iPhone” screen. I just want to see my nav. Infuriating.
I find it more infuriating that car makers like BMW make you "rent" CarPlay despite already paying for all the hardware. They make you pay extra for a luxury vehicle to overcome their garbage infotainment system only for CarPlay itself to be disappointing.
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#113I use a free desktop edition of Quickbooks from 2007 or so to keep my businesses' books. It's clunky but it works and there's no subscription fee.
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#114JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.
The main problem with Jira is inexperienced admins deciding they have to use all the bells and whistles all the time.
Replace your IT team before you replace Jira.
My Jira experience is that I couldn’t live without it.
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#115cmd.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.
The new terminal with PowerShell is quite lovely. I recently had to move my work from macOS to Windows and am pretty happy after setting it up like this: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToMakeAPrettyPromptInWindo...
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#116Slack
I only use the web version. The native version is a resource hog (or was, when I last tried to use it).
The network connection quality on Slack calls seems to be very lacking compared to other call apps.
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#117JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.
Not to mention it is slow as molasses(on the cloud at-least) and the UI is unwieldy with way too many clicks required for the simplest of actions.
I am sorely tempted to build a frontend so that I can avoid wasting so much time on it. Just a better frontend not yet another project management tool that will not be bought by management.
I don't understand the slowness at all, even if their backend and architecture is Fubar to fix at this point without massive work, they could have handled it in UX with non blocking loading states, backgrounding actions which were slow etc?
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#118Slack
How is it possible that I have to spend perceptible amounts of time to search/view logs? I didn't ever have this problem in the 90's or 00's.
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#119Concur, ADP, and Workday are all really bad.
ADP is unbelievably bad. That’s 2k software. I’m genuinely scared about their security and hate it that my most personal information are in a system like that.
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#120Docker. 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…
Some good stuff here, however... Strong disagree on compose. I think it’s amazing.