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

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Post by dmacedo »

cel1ne wrote: post #823
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything 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…

If you have a mac, look into GitUp. It's a great git-client and it creates a timelined snapshot-backup after every action, so you can undo whatever you did.

Haven't checked it out yet, but is that just git reflog with extra steps?

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Post by pintxo »

johnwalkr wrote: post #838

MS Office and it’s UI inconsistencies (where’s the button I need?). While Word and PowerPoint technically have good tools for managing styles, the interfaces steer users to use manual tweaking to the point where I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clean document. And after a few copies and pastes between documents, you now have 100 styles that will never be managed again. Shared folders are a nightmare for version control…

I fear the problems with Word and PowerPoint are mainly on the users, most simply have never heard about paragraph styles!

My personal hate object is the Windows10 client for OneDrive/Sharepoint. I have had it on multiple occasions remove locally created files from my laptop so that I could not access a file created a couple hours earlier on the same computer. Had to sync it back from the cloud, how is this a feature?

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Post by jeanlucneptune »

Literally any electronic medical record system ever built.

HUNDREDS of different systems on the market. Some with maybe a handful of doctor's offices using a particular system.

Worst UIs you could ever imagine. Limited interoperability.

In even well-established systems with large numbers of installs you'll see multiple bugs in production code that don't get fixed.

Switching costs are essentially infinity so doctors get locked into a system no matter how bad it is.

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

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Post by dirkt »

hijef wrote: post #837
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything 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 first read Atlassian and could potentially get on board (they have made tons of QoL changes, which I love and actually like. Their API still isn't that great, though). And same with AWS. At first it's confusing for sure. A lot of their offerings are wrappers around OSS that is much more intuitive. But comparatively to Azure and GCF, they're all confusing at first. But then I read git, Docker, and Linux. Now I'm con…

I love git, but the command-line interface feels like it was grown over some time (which it was). It's just very ad-hoc in what commands are used to accomplish something.

The underlying architecture of git is awesome, but even if I know exactly what I want to do based on my understanding on the architecture, it's not obvious which command and which switches to use to achieve this. And I use the command-line all day, and I am good at remembering switches.

But still, for git I've written myself a list on what combinations to what, and when I need to do something more exotic, I look it up in that list. A more consistent CLI would allow me to do what I want without lookup.

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Post by fancyfish »

_august wrote: post #387
lloydatkinson wrote: post #370

Anything 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.

Thanks, we started using Clubhouse about 7 months ago and have very few complaints. The main thing being it doesn’t have multi-second Lang after creating new issues.

Clubhouse is the first Jira replacement we’ve tried that the devs actually like using. Doesn’t have the laundry list of features Jira has, but meets our needs (team of 20).

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

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Post by philliphaydon »

XCSme wrote: post #269

Android 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've wasted too much money on Android TV. I bought 4 little android boxes. The best of them being Mi Box S

In the end I caved and bought an Apple TV 4k. I'm just sick and tired of how laggy android tv is, it's lagging on TVs that ship with it, it's laggy on little android boxes, it crashes often, if it's not crashing the apps are.

Apple TV 4k is super fast and never skips a beat, never crashes, just wish it wouldn't flick to the Apple TV app when I want to go back to app screen.

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

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Post by markpapadakis »

Pocket ( https://getpocket.com/ ). It’s really bad. Been using it for years and it’s always been broken. Crashes often, narration sometimes works most of the time it doesn’t, other times it works if you force stop the app and restart it. It’s very slow too. I depend on for my long daily commutes and I only stick to it because InstaPaper is also very broken and there is no reasonable way to move the stories from pocket to instapaper. I am convinced the people who build it never really use it for those issues are otherwise trivial to encounter and I would think trivia to fix as well. I hope someone will build a better such app and make them irrelevant.
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