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Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever
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Out of interest what do you not like about the whatsapp app? The core functionality seems pretty solid to me.
Lack of granular settings for notifications, wonky integration with the desktop client, groups, your id is your phone number. There isn't much that's wrong per se, but when compared to e.g. Telegram it's much worse.
Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever
What about gitlab ? Why wouldn't that be an alternative ?
Also, it is not that great.
Whatsapp. It's a garbage app, made by a garbage company running like garbage on a garbage protocol. There is no realistic alternative because friends and family expect you to have it.
Whatsapp. It's a garbage app, made by a garbage company running like garbage on a garbage protocol. There is no realistic alternative because friends and family expect you to have it.
I quit Facebook in the latter half of the 2000's. Some of my family and friends suddenly stopped inviting me to things. I think anyone you lose because they have to send you a text message or email instead of a facebook invite/whatsapp message isn't really worth having as a friend. Especially if the reason you ditch Whatsapp is for ethical/moral reasons.
Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever
Anything electron: massive hog of resources and will never be rewritten on a nonbloated platform.
Every single package manager and scheme still seems fundamentally broken and are bad compromises. But there's no money in fixing it so it will always be broken. I salute people doing the thankless work of packaging OSS and language libraries. You are fighting the good fight, even if it is a losing war.
Any and all OTP (time suck, blocks automation, debatable gain over "good passwords").
IDEs (every IDE becomes an intense love/hate relationship... Intellij is dragging to a halt on a couple "medium sized" projects... but what would I replace it with? Eclipse hahahahahaha?)
Javascript: still an awful language, even with a ton of improvements and typed options. May webassembly kill it, although webassembly is probably another google trojan horse to control the web.
Java: should stop "improving" itself and just work on the JVM and migrating people to Kotlin/Scala/Groovy/Clojure.
G Suite (well, it's better than outlook, but spying and the sword of Damocles with getting locked out with no recourse)
Microsoft Windows (still have an iron grip on games, I hate everything else about it since Windows 7), although a glimmer of hope is that it does eventually have a real unix core.
Bash: the number of stackoverflow searches per line of code whenever I have to write bash is like 5:1, as in five stackoverflow searches per line of code written. But what options do you have? Perl is dying, fish/zsh isn't ubiquitous, etc.
Installing any software written in python will probably fail, or worse, break all my other python apps. Example: AwsCli
AwsCli: again, stackoverflow searches to line of code/command ratio is terrible. options aren't well documented, responses aren't documented or well-exampled, error codes change between releases (seriously, HOW MANY DIFFERENT error messages can expired credentials result in?)
Aws: please someone start beating these people. Oh, the options are google and microsoft. Oh well.
OH! The AWS CONSOLE: What a piece of shit. How much money does AWS make every minute? Basically enough to actually fund a team for this? This is for ec2/secgrps/r53 aka the bread and butter. And they DID rewrite it, and managed to make it FAR WORSE. Performance is awful. Screens refresh and move items as you try to click on things. Do I have a choice for adhoc stuff? Oh the cli? See above.
1Password. I hate it because Agile Bits are so user-hostile now. I can't replace it because the alternatives, if they meet our requirements, are even worse.
It separates Rust ecosystem.
Can’t be replaced because your code is either async from the beginning, or not. You are using either async libs, or some outdated libs because all modern versions have to support async Rust.
We’re required to use it for the project I’m working on.
Some things I hate:
* Project backlog is a mess UI-wise. Lots of fields, with little to no explanation of what they drive. Generally a bad UI for working with stories.
* Reviewing large pull requests is very laggy performance-wise.
* Compare branches is broken - I have to start to create a PR, then cancel it, if I just want to compare two branches.
* Release pipeline (not build pipeline) does not allow yaml definition, so you are expected to configure it by point and click, true to form for Microsoft.
* Logging in - I have to bookmark it because there doesn’t seem to be a good direct URL to navigate directly to my repo (as opposed to like a GitHub repo for example). Also the confusing branding with “Azure” probably contributes to this as well.
There are probably more things, but these are some that come to mind right away.