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

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Post by randomdata »

westoque wrote: post #42

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

I'm not sure it is worthy of the rewrite requirement, however. It doesn't seem to offer any functionality that is actually useful, save giving some people jobs pushing boxes around.

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

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Post by aklemm »

yeah986 wrote: post #87

Windows 10

What do you dislike about it? I enjoyed Linux desktop for many years, and then spent almost 10 years on OSX enjoying that, and now I've been on Windows 10 for a couple years and find it just fine. It's completely out of my way, doesn't crash, and so far updates haven't eaten my data.

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

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

GordonS wrote: post #78
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. I use it and love it every day in both dev and prod, but I also really kind of hate it. I'll keep my complaints short. There should not be a system-wide daemon. (Or any daemon). It should not require root at all (no setuid either). From outside the container, the container and its processes should be a single process (with threads). (Like glueing a bunch of processes together.) The containers should be nest-a…

I agree about the daemon. Podman is a daemonless alternative, though I've never used it myself. Strongly disagree about Docker Compose though - I actually really like the ability to compose a stack of different containers together with some simple yaml.

You'd still be able to compose a bunch of containers together, but it would result in a new, single container due to nesting.

It could even be compatible with docker-compose and it's yaml.

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

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Post by klysm »

landtuna wrote: post #70

tmux. I mean, I know it's better than screen, but I'm a user of emacs for 25 years, and I still can't get used to the tmux keymapping. I'm reluctant to customize them because I want my fingers to do the right thing on an unfamiliar system. And so many of the defaults are just bad, like constantly renaming windows when you run commands (without making a config file change). Even the command line arguments are differen…

I’m very grateful for iTerm - I tried to use tmux on a few occasions but it’s just so bad with the defaults. With some software it’s fine to have bad defaults but the occasions I need tmux is on random systems where I don’t want to have to ship dot files around.
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