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

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Post by peteri »

pagade wrote: post #122

Google Chat (enterprise G Suite offering): - No way to set status (essential in current remote work situation) - No way to reorder the rooms - No nested comments. - Cannot mark conversation unread or have some way to remember to come back to the conversation later. - If you lose your notification you are lost. Cannot figure out which room you were tagged in. - Cannot message to self. This is not a big problem but a g…

I agree soooo much with this. Like a lot of google products it feels half finished.

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

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Post by breatheoften »

btilly wrote: post #227
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. 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…

If you want more complaints, and well informed ones at that, read https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/containers-future-ian-eyberg/ . I particularly love the quote, The kernel developers view of the docker community is that in the rare case they can actually formulate the question correctly they usually don't understand the answer. There is only so much that you can say to clarify things to someone who is thinking about e…

Interesting thread.

Is there a microvm that can run chromium with puppeteer?

I've been thinking that server side chromium might actually turn into a pretty badass application server platform ... security, async, remote debug, webasm for cross platform secure binaries ...

Some efficient infrastructure for deploying is needed -- but should be far easier to create a fast server runtime for puppeteer+chromium than it is to create a generic container execution environment ... -- so the microvm approach seems like the right one for what i want ...

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

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Post by rikroots »

ypcx wrote: post #139
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. 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…

For me one of the worst were Docker for Desktop on both Mac and Windows, especially when used for local Kubernetes. I fixed this with a project running Kubernetes directly on a local virtual machine(s) and local Docker (without polluting the machine with Docker for Desktop) is a bonus that comes with that[1]. [1] https://github.com/youurayy/hyperctl

When Docker for Desktop came out, I refused to move from Docker Toolbox. My reasoning was probably illogical but my view was that if you're maintaining a number of projects, each of which runs in their own Docker environment and some of which had duplicate container names, then having the power to start/stop different Docker engines for each just made a lot more sense to me.

I don't miss Docker.

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

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Post by runjake »

Whatever the OS I am using is, be it macOS, Windows, or Linux.

It always feels like I'm working against the OS now that the OS philosophy has shifted to being all things to all people.

If it's Windows or macOS, it wants to advertise to me, or prevent me from launching certain apps or features.

If it's Linux, it's trying to shift me into some ill-thought out use pattern. This is fixable, but at a significant time cost customizing things. Actually, I'm being unfair to Linux, environments like XFCE pretty much stay out of your way. But I don't like where the mainstream DEs are going.

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

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Post by AsyncAwait »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. 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 except for compose. I actually like compose and how simple it is, but am curious about container nesting. Could you elaborate? How would dependencies work there for example?

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

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Post by Freeboots »

superasn wrote: post #52

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)

I usually dont mind too much, but my god i cant stand the slow.... faaaaaaaaaaade........ iiiiiiin.

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

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Post by leephillips »

enraged_camel wrote: post #344
lvass wrote: post #195

WhatsApp. The desktop version has very few features, requires constant connection to a mobile phone and gets out of sync very often. It's practically irremediable if you're in a crowded wi-fi area and ethernet is the only way to get a good connection. It's also designed so no conversation is ever private despite advertising it's E2E encryption. Everyone you talk to has automatic backups enabled and they're stored une…

That’s weird, I use WhatsApp almost exclusively (in the browser) and the desktop version is a joy. Never had syncing issues - in fact it syncs instantly for me.

It syncs very well for me, too, but there are missing features (for example, you can’t post a status on the desktop).

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

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Post by blocked_again »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

> feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago.

Unnecessary dig at Bootstrap and jQuery.

There are plenty of websites with great UI built using bootstrap. I don't understand how using jQuery has anything to do with the UI though. It's just a wrapper around JavaScript.

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

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Post by modeless »

jamil7 wrote: post #407
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…

Don’t agree with you about git at all, I find it’s one of the few tools I work with that behaves expectedly and gets out of my way, if you want that workflow of stash, pull and reapply a stash why not make an alias for it?

    git config pull.rebase true
    git config rebase.autoStash true
I think these should have been the defaults but they weren't implemented until later and it's hard to change defaults.

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

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Post by dive »

Apple Xcode. Not because it is bad-bad or worst. Just because all other software I use is better. Firefox, Things, Emacs, etc. Perhaps, this is what is happen when there are no alternatives. I know about AppCode from JetBrains, but in many cases (like, build system, dependency management, etc.) it behaves just like a wrapper on top of the Xcode or requires to launch Xcode itself.
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