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

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Post by winrid »

Someone1234 wrote: post #35

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…

When we were forced to try it you couldn't even customize keyboard commands. Most applications with multiple views/tabs will have something like cmd+1,2,3 to switch between the tabs. On OSX it was some RSI inducing combination you couldn't change.

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

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Post by alephu5 »

ivalm wrote: post #476
pachico wrote: post #316

Jira is my daily nightmare. I guess the "no CTO was ever fired for choosing SAP" applies to Jira too. It just does the opposite of that it tries to do, which is making development tracking easy (not to mention those silly ideas coming from agile coaches to use Jira to measure wrong things, which makes of it a horrible combo).

So what is like Jira but good? I use jira at work and I like it. But our use case is maybe more limited/liberal. For us it is: 1) list tasks to do and how tasks are linked 2) archive discussion about issues and integrates with butbucket (so in commit it will link to ticket to read about why something was done; similarly from issue discussion I can see the relevant commits; this also goes well with history either by l…

I think its influence on the organisation is what makes it hated. Where I work we spend so much effort and time setting up filters and rules, creating dashboards and health checks. The CTO becomes irate on slack if a sprint is started without all tasks having story points.

Whenever someone suggests we use another tool, it's immediately rejected unless it can be integrated with the atlassian suite. So if we want to run some kind of vote for understanding how our technical debt affects different parts of the project we can't use a specialist (free) Condorcet app, such as this https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/, we have to use jira's voting system.

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

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Post by bananaface »

XCSme wrote: post #269

Android on my TV: (keeps crashing, internet sometimes not working, sound volume usually is wrong, etc.) Nvidia GeForce Experience: I don't actually use it daily, because it doesn't work. I have not been able to start it for the last 6 months without getting a startup error. I contacted Nvidia support, reinstalled, downgraded, updated, problem is still there. The tray icon always shows when there's a new update, but I…

You don't need GeForce Experience. All the tech is in the base driver, Experience only adds social features. Uninstall it, it's just a vessel for advertising.

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

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Post by karlicoss »

elviejo wrote: post #445

- GitHub + why do we centralize issues, documents for a distributed version control? + why do we use a a closed source, walled garden to develop free software? - Git + it's a leaky abstraction. + why do we need to know about the stash? + why is it that changing to a different branch doesn't give any visual clue, even worst it keeps the files I'm working on that are not part of the repository yet. for an academic trea…

- 100% agree about github issues! Not just from the walled garden perspective, but also because you can't quickly grep over all bugs as you can over the code. git-bug seems to be a good step towards this https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug#readme

- for git stash: there is a config setting https://cscheng.info/2017/01/26/git-tip-autostash-with-git-p... Arguably should be a default, but then when it fails, new git users would end up even more confused about what happened...

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

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Post by mekster »

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…

> Linux. It’s great, but it’s so easy to run into configuration problems or poor documentation.

Linux? Are you serious? You mean some app that you're using on top of Linux. Can't believe you dismiss one of the best open source project with a few baseless lines.

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

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Post by andrewkdinh »

doomrobo wrote: post #388

I hate to say it, but Signal. Signal has consistently been a pain to use for my moderately sized ( Messages sometimes don't arrive or arrive out of ordered and appear in the wrong order, scrolling up has random jumping behavior, opening the chat in iOS causes my audio to stop playing, there is explicitly no way to back up any of the chat, copying multiple messages is broken on desktop, search is super slow and search…

Unfortunately, I’ve encountered many of the same issues, so I would recommend trying either Session (fork of Signal) [1] or Telegram (less secure but supports bots) [2]

[1] https://getsession.org/ [2] https://telegram.org/

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

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

Bash/POSIX shell. It's necessary because it's the standard, and you can't expect computers to have a better shell by default. It's good enough for simple things that scripts for it grow complex enough to warrant something better. It's only bearable because it's familiar after years of experience.

It's terrible because it does everything to make it hard to write scripts. Three syntaxes for using variables, and only one will not cause breakage. Stringly typed. Killer spaces when looping. Arcane syntax for conditionals, where despite 10 years of coding I can't write a simple if/else without looking at references.

And it's widespread enough that it won't die.

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

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Post by rustybolt »

Jira. I freaking hate everything about it. Its task is so simple and yet it sucks so monumentally at it. If I'm done with a task, it's freaking hard to find it. I can never get to the overview of tasks for a project, and it's cumbersome to log my hours for a task I haven't worked on before.

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

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Post by bananaface »

axegon_ wrote: post #146

* 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).

Pi as an abstraction layer over your VPN, that's genius. I'm gonna use that.
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