Google Drive. I have no idea how a company with a search background produced software where it is impossible to find something.
Almost the entire G Suite (sheets, docs, slides) - except probably for gmail -sucks.
Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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#132Finder on Macs. I've used a Mac for over 5 years and it still amazes me how unintuitive it is for basic tasks like copying and pasting files, creating new directories, etc.
any good alternatives to your problems?
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#133ConsoleZ on Windows that I use with Cygwin, being on one hand the best terminal app for Windows, on the other there were things that were driving me insane. The main project seems to be sort of abandoned, so I eventually fixed them myself[1].
[1] https://github.com/youurayy/console/releases/tag/1.19.0-pers...
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#134Docker. 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…
Strongly agree about this. Docker is conceptually on the right track, but it's fundamentally the wrong abstraction.
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#135Peoplesoft Financials.
I travel once a quarter on average for work. I probably spend about 6 hours on vouchers afterward, between account resets, etc. My employers rules are pretty brutal, but the system is impossible.
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#136Oracle openair
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#137The privacy invasive, security nightmare, resource hog, commonly referred to as the web browser.
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#138JIRA. The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.
Agree. Way too slow and too many clicks. Ajax loading is so annoying when its slow.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#139Docker. 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…
For me one of the worst were Docker for Desktop on both Mac and Windows, especially when used for local Kubernetes. I fixed this with a project running Kubernetes directly on a local virtual machine(s) and local Docker (without polluting the machine with Docker for Desktop) is a bonus that comes with that[1].
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#140Google Drive. I have no idea how a company with a search background produced software where it is impossible to find something.
Everyone one of these cloud storage services (Dropbox, Box, Drive, iCloud, S3, OneDrive) has adopted the same mental model of file storage that computer systems from the 80s devised to mimic filing cabinets. Namely: folders. I think a folder hierarchy has some value but they should really all be using a tagging system instead. Orgs tend to have multiple hierarchies based or org charts, projects, disciplines, timelines. Being able to tag documents across all or multiple would make browsing to the right document less of a maze. And make search more accurate.