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Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by jasonv »

bartread wrote: post #127
jasonv wrote: post #84

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I've used Outlook at a lot of companies and can't say I share most of these experiences. 10s of thousands of emails? Not slow. Hangs for a few seconds? Not in my experience. Whole series vs a single meeting? Only when editing, which makes sense. Opening to grab the conference ID? I don't get asked that question. I've had to use Outlook in some way for the last 20 years, and I just live with it, but I'm also saying...…

> Maybe it's something to do with whoever runs your Exchange..? Well it's 365 so that, unfortunately, is Microsoft.

Yeah, same here.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by jf »

ezrast wrote: post #119
StratusBen wrote: post #108

The AWS Management Console.

Thank you. It blows my mind how rarely I see anyone talk about what an utter disaster of a product this frontend is.

I like to tell people that you can measure how bad the AWS console is by looking at the valuation of companies like Heroku and Digital Ocean. Both wouldn’t exist if AWS has a better console, the former was even built atop EC2!

Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by Can_Not »

bibabaloo wrote: post #124
notechback wrote: post #114

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Making a more usable Jira must be a potential billion dollar business. Outside it support/development It's used by many orgs because for their vague use cases nothing else is available.

It's amazing to me that there's 1000s of 'more useable Jira' variants out there, but IME every team that tries to use one inevitably ends up back using Jira.

but almost none with both markdown and dark mode.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by mherrmann »

yellowapple wrote: post #110

Windows as a porting target for desktop applications. I've written a few for work (using PyQt5), and about 10% of my effort typically goes into getting the application working on Linux. The other 90% goes into wrestling with Windows doing everything in its power to fucking ruin my week. Fman Build System (fbs) helps quite a bit, I've found, but there are still more often than not some really annoying rough edges (not…

fbs author here. Thank you for the mention :-)

Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by SanchoPanda »

lordnacho wrote: post #39
hunter-gatherer wrote: post #33

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I'm with you. My org tries to do so many things with excel, despite that fact that is fails and breaks on us ever single day. What is worse, is that we use excel sheets and a shared folder to monitor projects, tasks, and even track casework. I hate it so much.

Yeah don't get me started on versioning, lol. bondspricing_final_2_withswaptions_final_final5.xls. In a folder with 25 similarly named files. Good luck tracing the diffs. But I guess that's not specifically Excel that causes this, it's people not understanding versioning.

I have gotten a pretty good workflow down on Excel sheets and version control thanks to gnumeric's ssconvert. Worth looking into IMHO.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?

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Post by dnt404-1 »

samjanis wrote: post #56

I've become wiser over the years, but the top 3 were 3: Windows/Symantec Defrag (pre-Vista era) When I had 10-40GB hdds it used to be mesmerising watching the blocks fly around the screen. Eventually I find something else to do and pretend the computer's broken. 2: Macromedia/Adobe Flash. Sometimes animations just didn't want to work. Tweens are notoriously random with complex drawings. Delete and start all over agai…

that brought back memories of early teen.
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