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Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
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Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#142I apologize for saying this in advance but I'd have to say for me it's GIMP. Even after all its feature and popularity I find it extremely hard to use and often end up wasting hours trying to create a simple graphic. As a last resort I always end up booting Windows just to use Photoshop to do the same. I have been trying to move away from Windows to linux and so far I'm super happy with everything. But Photoshop is t…
IMHO, Gimp was much easier to use before they revamped the GUI to imitate Photoshop. For those who didn’t try it, it looked like this: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleaning_up_Fourie...
Um... I think they need a copy of Photoshop if they're going to try to "imitate" it. They imitated it as closely as chopping onions is similar to learning how to drive a car. I checked it out in January, while doing a month of open source alternatives to Adobe. That's a big no.
Adobe is pricey but that money is pumped very well into UI. After playing with some of the open source alternatives... yea, $55 a month is now cheap to me since I now know what crappy UI and ass backwards workflows really look like.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#143Jira and confluence
Jira is slowwwwwwwww. Like using index cards on a whiteboard would be faster.
If you want to make sure no one ever reads a document, put it in Confluence. Unless you've bookmarked it, you'll never find it again, let alone anyone else.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say Atlassian products in general. Jira has had a notorious bug for nearly a decade (still ongoing, I believe) that would delete a description/comment if you accidentally hit escape in the middle of writing it. Bitbucket also changed the term "blame" to "annotate" because "blame" was a strong word that hurts feelings (seriously, this is the reason) and didn't bother telling anyone until people started wondering w…
IntelliJ also uses annotate instead of blame.
Visual Studio calls it Annotate as well, when using TFS and/or Git.
Never really thought about the why.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#145`material-ui` react component library. obscene amounts of boilerplate + every update would require refactoring the mess they made me make.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#146China Great Firewall - no comments, just a huge idiotic waste of time and a major, major, major PITA for every normal person that lives in China.
Webpack - I ain't no frontend dev, coming back to it episodically to discover that FooBarPlugin is now BarBazPlugin, moved from alice: setting to bob:, XxxPlugin just stopped working at all and unsupported (after like 9 months), and ZzzPlugin now nukes the entire dist/ dir as a side effect.
XPS 15 9570 fans, they're controlled by BIOS and start at 45C specifically to annoy people to no end. So under Linux, after much googling, you need to build the dell-bios-fan-control utility which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, in shamanic ways. E.g. running lspci resets fans and they spin up again. Load kvm modules, spin up again. I've spent probably way more than 100 hours to make the laptop quiet.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#147Surprised nobody's mentioned systemd yet!
My worst experience was when I was on a cross-country train writing code for a project whose database was mysql. No internet, intentionally. Something happened with one of my inserts (can't remember what exactly) and I had to restart mysqld. Problem was, with the bad insert, mysqld took longer than 30s to start, which forced systemd to restart it because of a default, undocumented setting to restart a service if it's not up after 30s. Again. And again. And again. Nothing in the documentation hinted that this was a feature of systemd anywhere, and I was stuck troubleshooting that nonsense instead of just writing code.
Systemd is just filled with undocumented crap and features that shouldn't exist by default, leading to headache after headache after headache. Such a pain in the ass.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#148I apologize for saying this in advance but I'd have to say for me it's GIMP. Even after all its feature and popularity I find it extremely hard to use and often end up wasting hours trying to create a simple graphic. As a last resort I always end up booting Windows just to use Photoshop to do the same. I have been trying to move away from Windows to linux and so far I'm super happy with everything. But Photoshop is t…
Only problem with GIMP is their idiotic decision to split saving and exporting.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#149Hacker News! (But in a good way...)
Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
#150Not technically a program. But what we call “Agile” where I work wastes one third of my day. It is essentially a way to paper over incompetence. Didn’t make deadline? Feature is unusable? Need to revisit how we are doing Agile again. Plus more meetings are needed. Never mind the fact Albert Einstein cannot follow the train of thought of many of our product owners and scrum masters.