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

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Post by nsl73 »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #878

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 on…

Not only is sh so widespread that it won’t die, but my own backlog of sh scripts, code snippets, config, and muscle memory is so deep that I refuse to use anything that doesn’t have good compatibility with sh.

I also hate it. It’s not the worst piece of software I use everyday, but every time I need to do something more complex than completely routine I find myself fiddling much more than I should have to.

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

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Post by welcome_dragon »

vegetablepotpie wrote: post #400

Cmsynergy The worst version control software known to man. It is a bloated IBM tool from the 90s, takes 10 minutes copy a repo that would take git 5 seconds. It has a lock modify unlock paradigm, so if your coworker forgets about a file they were working on and they get promoted, you can forget about working on your project ever again. The paradigms are backwards. The project doesn’t branch, the files do. You make yo…

Thanks for reminding me of this piece of garbage. Wasn't it called Continuus at some point? If not, that that was even worse than CM Synergy

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

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Post by nicbou »

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?

I've been using git for a decade, and I still have to Google simple tasks. The answers rarely make sense.

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

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Post by welcome_dragon »

darksaints wrote: post #552

Airflow. Hard coupling to their own ecosystem, buggy as hell, and fully tied into Python's terrible dependency management, ensuring you will fail but only after you build an entire ecosystem onto it and will face a massive challenge moving away from it. Running it in a kubernetes cluster is basically like holding a marathon in a minefield. You know someone's gonna die, you just don't know when.

Not to mention how "missed SLAs" don't function like you expect them to

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

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Post by welcome_dragon »

kvgr wrote: post #339

Android Auto on my Passat b8... I made it work 2 times. Any other tries it just restarts again and again... I tried to reset csctory settings on a car. Uninstalled android auto app... I will be forced to use sygic with mirror link.

Any chance you're listening to the 99% invisible podcast when it restarts?

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

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Post by antipaul »

mint2 wrote: post #867

Sas hands down. And it isn’t just that The software is bad. It’s terrible, and seems to train users into bad programming habits. But what makes it the worst is the ecosystem around it. For example the help and forum posts are just agonizing. They are verbose to the extreme, Often including paragraphs on what the author was thinking the first time they encounter the problem, and manage to sound patronizing and naive a…

Totally! And often, they're PDFs!

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

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Post by andylynch »

westoque wrote: post #42

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

My vote would be for ServiceNow, which makes even the most complex Jira install look simple and user friendly. But it having used Jira since not long after it came out in 2002 it’s really depressing how bloated it’s become - the first versions were really great and far from what it has evolved into.

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

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Post by vladvasiliu »

Assossa wrote: post #734
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…

I've been using Teams at college for over a year now and at work for a couple months. It baffles me that there are simple, obvious bugs that have remained all that time. For instance, on the Windows desktop app, the word "I've" gets marked as incorrectly spelled. When you click on it to see the spelling suggestions, it suggests "I've". Clicking on the suggestion does nothing and it continues to flag it. This has been…

> For instance, on the Windows desktop app, the word "I've" gets marked as incorrectly spelled. When you click on it to see the spelling suggestions, it suggests "I've". Clicking on the suggestion does nothing and it continues to flag it. This has been an issue in the app for over a year and I refuse to believe that the developers are unaware of it. It's a very common word to be typing.

The spelling situation gets better than this. You're actually forced to use the Teams one. For example, on MacOS, text fields get "free" spelling and grammar by the OS, which honour whatever settings you've configured. Of course, Teams doesn't use MacOS text fields, so they're on their own.

I live in France and so use French in Teams, but I absolutely hate having programs in several languages so all my programs are in US English. If I set Teams to use English for the interface, guess what language it uses for spelling? I'm still looking for a way to tell it in which language to check spelling, but we'll have probably switched to the next shiny thing until this happens...

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