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

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

Not sure why people do not use Redmine more. Its totally awesome, free, cross platform, stable as much as software can be, can run hundreeds of projects, thousands of users without a glitch, and OTB is trivial to use. With plugins it can be anything you want.

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

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* Jira - over-engineered, unnecessarily complex and utterly slow. * Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it. * AWS admin console - same as jira, at least it's not slow. * VPNs in general annoy me beyond reason too. At this point I use a raspberry pi to connect to the vpn and I use it as an SSH access server (and tunnel respectively).

The magic of aws is is to use the command line tools and sdks.

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

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Git. The UX and design is broken af, nothing work, noone get it. AWS. I don't know where to begin. Nothing make sense. Nothing works. Docker. This thing is basically backward at every step. We should have never packaged different things on linux as a single "container". It does not work that way and that has created more pain than solve anything. K8s: same Go: same Venv. Goddamnit this never worked well and same as g…

I feel like to understand Git, you need to understand pointers. I love git, it's so much better and so much easier to reason about than Perforce/whatever, in my view.

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

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Slack: their web UI is ridiculously slow, and I hate how it creates this expectation that I’m online 24/7. GitHub: we mainly use phabricator now at my day job (which I love love love), but I don’t really derive any joy from using this product anymore. I think great tools are also fun to use, perhaps controversially. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I find GitHub sort of a drag for some reason. NodeJS: I absolut…

> and I hate how it creates this expectation that I’m online 24/7

Can't you just log off after 5?

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

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* BMC Remedy (Oh my god. Utterly disgusting experience.) * Atlassian JIRA (never really got the hang of it. Overcomplicated.) * Workday (the web app is sloooooow.) * MRemoteNG (The best SSH client on Windows. Also the worst. Alt + Tab navigation annoys me to hell!) * iTunes on Windows (Why is it like the way it is even in 2020!?)

> Why is it like the way it is even in 2020!?

Isnt apple trying to kill iTunes in general?

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

#259

Maven, since the dependency hell and that __every__ single project requires the same ugly boilerplate and yak shaving tasks, worsened if the infamous release plugin is used. Jira, because it's too slow and bloated from features you never use anyway. IntelliJ, because it freezes on every 6-7 autosuggestions, on projects of 50-80K LOCs.

The only reason I use Maven is because there is a lot of copy paste code snippets floating around to get things done.

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

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I thankfully don't use it everyday, but Mac and literally everything on Mac (even the terminal started crashing on resize towards the end of the time I used it every day). Over time, I started keeping a note where I put every bug, missing feature, malicious feature, performance issue, driver issue I had with my 2 different MacBooks day to day, and it's loooong. I'll probably never organize it unless I'm forced to use Mac again.
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