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

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Post by PopePompus »

iOS:

I almost never use it myself, but I get called upon to deal with it for some of my relatives. The fact that you can't just mount the file system on a non-crippled computer and transfer files to and from the device just drives me mad. Getting someone's music into the right place if they don't have access to a machine with iTunes is miserable. When the "files" app appeared a few years ago, I thought "finally, they'll let you manipulate files directly", but no - it's just another silo too restricted to be of any use.

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

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Post by odiroot »

That would be German mobile banking apps (websites are just slightly better).

My current bank just wrapped a mobile website in Android app. Logging-in with a fingerprint, though supported, takes 3 or 4 attempts.

The app is also very slow and fails miserably on slow mobile connection (very common in Germany).

Finally the app doesn't do the 2FA feature, it's offered by another, even worse app from the same bank. They're too cheap to offer SMS option.

The 2FA app can only be registered using snail mail confirmation.

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

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Post by DenseComet »

_____s wrote: post #157

Mail.app on macOS. Some macOS apps are really great (Notes or Safari for example), but the average quality is poor. Mail, for example, is slow, search almost never works, etc.

I'm also using Mail.app right now and I've been having similar issues with search and stuff. Does anyone have any recommendations for good desktop email apps on macOS?

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

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Post by alhirzel »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #63

Docker. 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…

Give Singularity a look

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

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Post by Razengan »

PopePompus wrote: post #201

iOS: I almost never use it myself, but I get called upon to deal with it for some of my relatives. The fact that you can't just mount the file system on a non-crippled computer and transfer files to and from the device just drives me mad. Getting someone's music into the right place if they don't have access to a machine with iTunes is miserable. When the "files" app appeared a few years ago, I thought "finally, they…

> The fact that you can't just mount the file system on a non-crippled computer

What do you mean, non-crippled computer?

I think one of the reasons iOS doesn't expose the device as a Plain Old Disk is so that it can continue to enforce content restrictions etc., i.e. such as those set by parents.

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

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Post by omosubi »

tootie wrote: post #140
djinnandtonic wrote: post #105

Google Drive. I have no idea how a company with a search background produced software where it is impossible to find something.

Everyone one of these cloud storage services (Dropbox, Box, Drive, iCloud, S3, OneDrive) has adopted the same mental model of file storage that computer systems from the 80s devised to mimic filing cabinets. Namely: folders. I think a folder hierarchy has some value but they should really all be using a tagging system instead. Orgs tend to have multiple hierarchies based or org charts, projects, disciplines, timeline…

I hate the tagging ux in gmail. I would consider it in Google drive but I doubt I'd like it there either

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

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Post by odiroot »

axegon_ wrote: post #146

* Jira - over-engineered, unnecessarily complex and utterly slow. * Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it. * AWS admin console - same as jira, at least it's not slow. * VPNs in general annoy me beyond reason too. At this point I use a raspberry pi to connect to the vpn and I use it as an SSH access server (and tunnel respectively).

> Zoom - worst video conference product __EVER__. Can't say a single good word about it.

I was forced to use Skype in the early 2000s. Believe, it was much worse.

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

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Post by PhilipA »

MCRayRay wrote: post #56

Jira. Its WYSIWYG editor is goddamn awful. Runner-up goes to its sibling product, Confluence, for the same reason.

It is amazing how bad Confluence is, and it still seems like the best choice for an internal wiki. I have been close to building one myself, but for now I have withhold.

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

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Post by osrec »

di4na wrote: post #164

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 g…

Genuine question, what don't you understand about Git? I personally like it, but the learning curve is steep for some of the more complex operations. But then again, it is doing fairly complex things at that end of the spectrum...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

olav wrote: post #149
Someone1234 wrote: post #35

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…

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