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

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Maven, since the dependency hell and that __every__ single project requires the same ugly boilerplate and yak shaving tasks, worsened if the infamous release plugin is used.

Jira, because it's too slow and bloated from features you never use anyway.

IntelliJ, because it freezes on every 6-7 autosuggestions, on projects of 50-80K LOCs.

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

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cmd.exe on Windows - trully horrible shell. bash on *nix - less horrible then cmd.exe but still trurlly horrible anyway. I want to kill myself any time I enter any of those. PowerShell cross platform made all my cells rejoice.

PowerShell and WSL. Windows has thoroughly redeemed itself after years in the wilderness.

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Git. The UX and design is broken af, nothing work, noone get it.

AWS. I don't know where to begin. Nothing make sense. Nothing works.

Docker. This thing is basically backward at every step. We should have never packaged different things on linux as a single "container". It does not work that way and that has created more pain than solve anything.

K8s: same Go: same

Venv. Goddamnit this never worked well and same as git, noone gets it.

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

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macOS Finder. It is hard to fathom how bad a file explorer could be if you have used only windows and linux file explorers. Finder is astonishingly bad. Default search is global, it means searching while you are in a folder will search across all documents. This can be changed, but search is even then far worse compared to windows or linux. Sometimes Finder simply won't show certain files, and you need to do a mv fro…

+1 I hate it. Probably only thing about my mac

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

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Microsoft 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…

+1 for MS Teams. I am forced to use it at work, too. Terrible audio focus on a single speaker, it really forces you to speak like on these old CB radios where you had to say "over" every time you were done talking. The single window UI follows the mobile-first trend but is awfully inefficient on my three monitor setup, even more so with screen sharing. Plus, our admins lock the whole MS Office 365 down so that there…

>Plus, our admins lock the whole MS Office 365 down so that there are no APIs or third-party plugins allowed. Data in it is just trapped.

To be fair, that's a feature from team's perspective. If your admins are worried about sensitive data leaking out at all, and refuse to have a whitelist of approved 3rd party integrations, then that's on them. Imo it's a good thing to allow admins to do.

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

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I don't use it anymore luckily, but from a couple years ago: Xcode!! Unstable, baffling interface decisions, very poor on features and the features that are there are unreliable. By far the worst IDE I've ever used.

Yeah and when it's updating some includes you can type faster than it'll show the new characters. That always really messes with my brain, when I press a key but a different (previously typed) character shows up instead.

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

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Anything which requires me to use a Google captcha or hcaptcha. I generally don't get annoyed very easily but spotting fire hydrants and traffic lights just to login into a site to which you are a paying customer is plain nonsense. I've actually decided to move my entire infrastructure from Digital ocean to AWS because of this captcha before login nonsense (thankfully DO reverted it just in time)

I've started intentionally making my answers subtly wrong. E.g., if something might look like a fire hydrant, but isn't, I mark it positive. I usually have to do it a few times anyway, and it makes me feel better to think Google's AI datasets are inaccurate.
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