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In recent times, Angular. It’s utter rubbish and needlessly complex for doing even the smallest of things.
I'm curious, can you share an example of what you mean? My experience has typically been the opposite.
Desktop Linux. Always something needs to be set up, always something breaking, always something needed to be fixed, always had a problem to solve.
(Why I currently only run Linux on servers)
Factorio? More seriously, the absolute worst developer experience I've ever had was a weird proprietary environment called "OpenAT" for a mobile module system. Admittely we were in the beta programme because we needed features, but every new firmware update would fix some features of the operating system and break others . At one point while trying to debug terrible sound we noticed that the volume control wasn't at…
Factorio is great, I don’t see it as a waste! It’s given me a new respect for logistics and advanced planning. I think the whole idea is a massive exercise in programming, producing functions, changing structures and then debugging the problem/expanding the bottle neck. But yeah it’s still a game.
(An unloaded train is clearly a "hole" charge carrier..)
Microsoft Outlook, no question: - It hangs all the time for a few seconds at a time, - The search is moronic (how about you look on the server and on my computer at the same time instead of hanging for a while and then displaying that dumbass message offering the option to search on my computer instead when there's a problem with the connection?), - Switching to the unread message view regularly results in a progress…
The one feature I love about Outlook is that the inbox can be sorted by Received time, ascending. And the list focus defaults to the most recent entry. Every SMS and email client that has 'most recent on top' as the only view drives me f *g nuts. I want my oldest conversations on top so I can see which ones have been awaiting a response or are done and can be archived/deleted, but apparently that's not how anybody wo…
Python. Mostly other people’s python, but also everything I’ve ever written in python.
I wasted a lot more than 100 hours coding workarounds for its numerous CSS bugs. Probably millions of hours wasted world-wide. I hate Microsoft for the way they screwed web developers.
Surprised 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, undocum…
Nothing except three paragraphs in systemd.service(5) (TimeoutStartSec=, TimeoutStopSec=, TimeoutSec=), with references to systemd-system.conf(5) where the defaults are described. I wouldn't call that undocumented. Whether it should exist by default is another question; on balance, I'm glad it does.
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