Android. Very bad for the consumer, from a privacy standpoint. Hopefully a plain Linux phone will be my next phone.
Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#402Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…
Disagree strongly on git. On the surface the syntax is ugly, but the data model is brilliant. Once you wrap your mind around what commits, heads and remotes are and learn to rebase you get an incredibly simple and fine-grained control. I never use stash because it's trivial to create a WIP commit and rebase later into the chunks I want to ship to permanent history. Git is like a chef's knife: extremely powerful tool…
I think the best argument against git is to use mercurial for a few months. It has exactly the same functionality but a nicer and more streamlined interface, especially when it comes to branch management.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#403- Google products.
- - Gmail intentionally doesn't filter spam or phishing emails.
- - Google Voice used to be useful but today is being blocked by more and more services.
- - Google Contacts is pervasive and uselessly so.
- - Google Calendar also supports tons of spam and phishing.
- - I stopped using Chrome because it stopped being a user agent.
- Atlassian products. Slow bloated pieces of privacy violating garbage.
- - JIRA is more and more confusing every day. Frequently changing UI incurs cognitive costs. Its workflows are confusing af.
- - Confluence is functionally inferior to Media Wiki. That's not even the worst part; the worst part is that it doesn't use markup like the rest of the world.
- Microsoft products.
- - Skype. Once upon a day Skype was nice and usable. Today Skype is functionally, measurable, objectively less useful and less stable than it was just half a decade ago.
- - Github. It was great until a few weeks ago. That new UI is still worse.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#404Sorry, but everything listed here is rank amateur stuff when compared to Blackboard Learn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn).
First, the user interface is designed as if the programmers were incentivized to maximize the number of clicks required to get anywhere.
Second, it has the responsiveness of continental drift.
Third, editing and formatting text is an exercise in torture. When I want to delete text that I am writing, half of the time, the delete key won't work (I'm exaggerating, but not joking). Formatting of text is quasi-random. Want red-colored text? That works about 90% of the time for me. The other 10% will give me gray text (This time, not exaggerating). If you are brave, you can edit your text as raw HTML, but, my God, you'd better bring the anti-hypertension pills, because the HTML will blast you with a tsunami of elements. Sometimes the elements (unnecessarily) surround individual characters, sometimes they surround _parts_ of words.
Third, it is nigh impossible to set useful defaults. Why can't the due dates for assignments be defaulted to the end of the day instead of the current hour and minute? Do you honestly think that I would ever want my assignment to be due at 4:33 PM?
Fourth, it tries to do too many things. I already have email. I don't need Blackboard's email functionality getting in the way.
I could go on (for a while), but it's time for those blood pressure meds.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#405Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…
I started using Clubhouse ( https://clubhouse.io ) for my personal projects and like it a lot for a light-weight alternative to Jira, yet more powerful than Trello. Not sure how it scales for big teams though.
We use it at work. Many teams of 5-8 people. We love it.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#406Android on my TV: (keeps crashing, internet sometimes not working, sound volume usually is wrong, etc.) Nvidia GeForce Experience: I don't actually use it daily, because it doesn't work. I have not been able to start it for the last 6 months without getting a startup error. I contacted Nvidia support, reinstalled, downgraded, updated, problem is still there. The tray icon always shows when there's a new update, but I…
I disagree about Chrome. It's absolutely not perfect, but considering its sheer complexity - browsers are probably comparable to an operating system at this point - bugs are fairly rare and performance is quite good.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#407Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…
Don’t agree with you about git at all, I find it’s one of the few tools I work with that behaves expectedly and gets out of my way, if you want that workflow of stash, pull and reapply a stash why not make an alias for it?
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#408Docker. 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…
Docker is also essentially completely broken on MacOS and has been for years. The performance penalty on anything doing I/O is like 5x, and it tends to completely hammer my CPU. There are tons of internet discussions, so it appears to not be just me.
I thought those were (partially?) addressed (or still ongoing?) with the use of bhyve/xhvye?
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#409Slack - for being unstable (crashes frequently). We have very little noise, so it is only an interruption when somebody actively needs to interrupt me.
Skype - an absolute trainwreck of instability and messages not syncing between devices. Always needs to update - and never improves. I only use it because it is still the de-factor standard for a lot of poeple.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#410Atlassian Jira. Its Slow.