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

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Post by EmmEff »

enitihas wrote: post #38

macOS Finder. It is hard to fathom how bad a file explorer could be if you have used only windows and linux file explorers. Finder is astonishingly bad. Default search is global, it means searching while you are in a folder will search across all documents. This can be changed, but search is even then far worse compared to windows or linux. Sometimes Finder simply won't show certain files, and you need to do a mv fro…

+1

I am quite comfortable dropping to a terminal to run `ag` but this shouldn’t be necessary. Such wasted potential in a GUI file manager and seemingly no chance it’ll ever be improved.

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

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Post by etrautmann »

superasn wrote: post #52

Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense. I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)

On top of being incredibly annoying, I find it insulting to be put to work training algorithms by clicking on the 5th iteration of spotting bikes and cars.

Infuriating

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

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Post by arprocter »

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 noticed earlier even if Teams is switched 'off' in Startup Apps it'll still run when Windows starts unless you tell it not to under settings in the client

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

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Post by politelemon »

nateabele wrote: post #19

Workday. There's not even a close second.

I don't know how true this is, but I once complained about how unintuitive and difficult to use workday is. I was told, as bad as it is, it's considered best in its class.

I'm not knowledgeable enough, but are there alternatives to workday and are they actually worse?

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

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

westoque wrote: post #42

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

Jira and Graylog compete for the top spot in the list of software with search functionality I’m too dumb to use properly.

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

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Post by PopeDotNinja »

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 miss ICQ.
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