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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?

#151

Anything 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)

What's the alternative? Why does DO have a captcha to begin with?

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#153

Finder on Macs. I've used a Mac for over 5 years and it still amazes me how unintuitive it is for basic tasks like copying and pasting files, creating new directories, etc.

I can’t find anything easily. I am used to moving around by tweaking path ( win explorer). Really miss that

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#154

JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.

I use JIRA for personal projects and at work. It's coming to the point where JIRA is so slow that I'm willing to invest the time to migrate my personal projects over to something else. If I simply want to add a label to a ticket it can take an unreasonable amount of time. It's mind blowing when I'm paying a decent amount for seats.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#158
The internet. I mean, I love the concept of what the internet could have been, but it's currently the most hostile thing I have to deal with on a daily basis. Bad actors are too prevalent, and the amount of BS stuff we've tried to come with GDPR/Cookie banners, Do Not Track, AdBlockers, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#159

Microsoft Teams. I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc). Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer…

I noticed earlier even if Teams is switched 'off' in Startup Apps it'll still run when Windows starts unless you tell it not to under settings in the client

To kill the Linux version you need to run "killall teams" in a loop because it keeps trying to respawn itself

Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

#160

CUDA. The GPU is the new Floating Point Coprocessor. (I think they are likely to be integrated on CPUs even for high performance use-cases, eventually. Although this is only happening very slowly...) It should be be programmed with vendor-neutral CPU instructions and if need be, trapped by the kernel and emulated or delegated appropriately. But all of this should be totally transparent to the user application.

+1

And when you need to profile something, get ready to set up custom drivers, custom kernel flags, and recompile 30 GB of libraries and source code for that custom cupti.so.

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