Teams.
I step away for 3 hours and that process that is consuming 4GB RAM is none other than Teams.
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?
#652Jira is my daily nightmare. I guess the "no CTO was ever fired for choosing SAP" applies to Jira too. It just does the opposite of that it tries to do, which is making development tracking easy (not to mention those silly ideas coming from agile coaches to use Jira to measure wrong things, which makes of it a horrible combo).
If you think Jira is bad you should see Remedy.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#653Anything 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…
The author asked for the worst software. However you listed
Atlassian, which is really nice (Try alternatives like CA Rally which is horrible)
Git, Linux which are gifts from god
Docker, which helped containers become mainstream and enabled the nice infrastructure we can have today
Facepalm, I sometimes forget such people exist
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#654Anything 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…
Jira is such a pain to work with. For example, there seem to be two different ways to create a new issue. If you get to the one that uses a modal, the text input is in Textile format. Whereas the other page uses Markdown. It's insane that anyone thought that was a good idea
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#655Sorry, 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 t…
I was lucky to meet a guy who is running a company that id working on an extremely polished alternative, called Edubase. (I’m not affiliated.)
It seems both the students and the teachers love it. And I can see why. He demoed it to me and for example for Math exams it supported equivalent form solutions. That’s definitely not the trivial kind of stuff. And the list went on, both the capabilities were off the chart and the user experience was top polished. It’s already used on universities and in some private companies. Definitely check it out if you need a solution from the space.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#656Docker. 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…
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#657Docker. 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…
Yeah, docker is an anti-pattern in so many ways.
Linux is partially to blame as well, since the container/isolation APIs can be hard to use correctly, and many people have latched on to docker as something that sort of works.
It also seems to me that the failed security and isolation designs, and painful management and administration designs, of every mainstream operating system have been primary factors in pushing us toward VMs and containers in the first place.
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#658Proofpoint spam filter! Drives me nuts!
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#659Anything 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…
> AWS... It is literally years behind Azure.
I’m going to have to disagree with you here, AWS has some quirks, but the UI is being actively worked on and improved but Azure is an outright dumpster fire.
Who thought scrolling sideways was a great idea? Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane?
Why is everything about permissions and auth so hard to find?
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#660Microsoft 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…
For those complaining about Teams slowness, I've found following this guide to clear out cached content dramatically speeds up the application especially on mac: