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

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Post by bflesch »

franga2000 wrote: post #184
bflesch wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was recently a post on HN about a GIMP fork called glimpse which aims to improve UI/UX: https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse or project page at https://glimpse-editor.org/

It's great to see that, but I doubt they can do much about the big UI issues, which come from the way GIMP's internals work. The fact that you still can't select more than one layer, not even to move them around, is a 100% deal-breaker for me and everyone I've shown GIMP to. Fortunately, Krita has gotten extremely good, even for photo work. If anyone has a shot at clawing back some Adobe market share, it's then.

I think moving multiple layers works in GIMP :o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwEPaV1ilc

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Post by collyw »

Salesforce (using their API). Our boss insisted on importing 4 years worth of past data in to Salesforce so he could print some graphs via Tableua. I tried to explain that it would be far easier just to leave Salesforce out of the equation completely, but they had paid a small fortune for it, so insisted on the wasted effort. Terrible platform from a developer perspective.

Then they bought Marketing Cloud, again terrible. Its supposed to be point and click enough that non technical users can use it, but its too complicated for them and absolutely terrible as it took 7 clicks to the edit page any HTML email.

These two things make my current platform and all it's technical debt seem like an absolute dream.

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

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Post by hiram112 »

perilunar wrote: post #178

Internet Explorer 6 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.

I almost switched careers early on due to IE6. At the time - 2006 or so, it was every new junior developer's job to get up to speed with the codebase by tackling a few of those outstanding IE6 glitches.

So for months on end, it was just 8 hours a day of Googling, scouring blogs and mailing lists for obscure CSS and JS hacks to get something to work in IE, while not breaking it in every other browser.

Luckily the recession ended a few of those jobs for me, and once hiring picked up again, there was enough demand for real work, and IE6 was no longer considered (probably about the time that YouTube refused to cater to IE6 users), and it quickly died off.

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

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Post by bkovacev »

guiambros wrote: post #138

sshd on Synology NAS [1]. It took me two weeks of troubleshooting, cross-compiling binaries and reverse engineering the source code, until I figured out that I wasn't doing anything wrong - Synology had actually changed their version of sshd to add all sorts of proprietary crap [2]. Another one was the "Mouse battery low" alerts on Gnome under Ubuntu [3]. The root cause was in upowerd, but Gnome developers could have…

Would you mind sharing your overall experience with synology? I'm planning on purchasing one for my home and all the reviews are positive, but I'm always eager to hear the bad side.

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Post by runawaybottle »

aasci wrote: post #145

`material-ui` react component library. obscene amounts of boilerplate + every update would require refactoring the mess they made me make.

What? elements are not intuitive to you with variants? All text is Typography after all ...

I always say Material is such an aesthetically good looking UI, that developers forfeit their common sense to leverage it.

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

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Post by runawaybottle »

sergiotapia wrote: post #111

redux redux sagas 2fa in general those fucking cookie banners that no one gives a shit about recaptcha webpack

Let me add to the list:

- Trying to test isolated components with a mock Redux store

- Figuring our how to set up tests for ‘connected’ components

- The long walks I go on after looking at an actions file that I need to work with

- The long walks Redux has made me go on

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

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Post by fmakunbound »

winrid wrote: post #218
fmakunbound wrote: post #134

In recent times, Angular. It’s utter rubbish and needlessly complex for doing even the smallest of things.

I think you might be using a battleship go cross a puddle.

Na, it's one of those giant enterprise applications with design by committee input forms, and so on. It's Angular's intended use-case.

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Post by rochak »

adreamingsoul wrote: post #161
saeranv wrote: post #120

Gmail. At some point they redesigned the UI and it's been a horrible experience since. It hasn't wasted 100 hours, but it certainly feels like it: - It takes multiple tries to delete files or select them as read. If you select the options to mark as read, or delete a message. For some reason it 'forgets' that I've done this when I exit the browser, and so I usually have to perform this operation at least twice. - The…

I switched back to the HTML version.

How does a company go backwards?
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