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Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
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#902Android. Truly horrible platform where I cannot even find a clock app that just works. I mean there is one shipped with a phone, but it has inconvenient timer and I do not like how time selection is done -- a lots of movements to scroll numbers to find one I need, -- but I cannot configure it to my convenience and I cannot find another clock app that works. And all this "Google phone wants to have an access to calend…
This comment looks very bizzare to me. The clock thing has been changed years ago, nowadays it's a timeface where you tap the hour in the first stage and the minute in the second, after that you're done setting the time.
> And a lot of useless stuff I cannot delete
Well yes, the os is made by a monopolistic ad company that tries to get your every last bit of sweet, sweet data through its services, but there's an extra step in the distribution chain where the hardware vendor can throw as much garbage into the system rom as they want. I deem android phones without lean cfw pretty much unusable.
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#903Wickr (Encrypted chatting).
Bloaded, Slow, Buggy, Unreliable. Unfortunately some customers are too stupid and/or lazy to use a Jabber/OTR client.
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#904Anything 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…
Shameless chiming in about AWS: I am working on a alternative web console for AWS, https://daintree.app, to have a better UX.
It's still in its early days, so not many resources are supported, but I work over it every weekend. It has multi region support (so you can have a fast overview without changing page), fast role switching, it's completely client side (so you don't have to share your credentials with a third-party) and of course it's opensource: https://github.com/rpadovani/daintree
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#905Anything 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…
Confluence is trash. It's slow, buggy, has a terrible UI which is always being messed with (or in Atlassian speak: "improved") and is constantly finding new ways to be unhelpful. Example: if you're trying open a template you don't have access to there's no way of requesting access to it. Confluence instead tells you to ask the person who created it to grant you access. Who?
Re: Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
#906Android. Truly horrible platform where I cannot even find a clock app that just works. I mean there is one shipped with a phone, but it has inconvenient timer and I do not like how time selection is done -- a lots of movements to scroll numbers to find one I need, -- but I cannot configure it to my convenience and I cannot find another clock app that works. And all this "Google phone wants to have an access to calend…
This comment looks very bizzare to me. The clock thing has been changed years ago, nowadays it's a timeface where you tap the hour in the first stage and the minute in the second, after that you're done setting the time. > And a lot of useless stuff I cannot delete Well yes, the os is made by a monopolistic ad company that tries to get your every last bit of sweet, sweet data through its services, but there's an extr…
The "tap hour, then minute" UI is for setting an alarm. But for timers ("please beep in 5 minutes and 30 seconds") the app still has the old stupid scroll interface.
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#907gimp
I keep meaning to do a full audit of their contributors list. I have suspicion that there's likely saboteurs from adobe doing some kind of open source espionage.
I would certainly do this if I was adobe.
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#908Workplace from Facebook. The company I work for uses this for internal communication. Workplace is basically the same Facebook and Messenger, but tweaked for a private group of people. The problem is that, because this is basically the same Facebook, it is designed to keep you "engaged". It uses all kinds of patterns to keep you addicted to your timeline and search for attention. Rather keeping you informed with the…
I cannot express, how much I hate it. I mean, I don't really see how the last line of your comment is relevant, since it was never up to me what the company I work in would choose as the internal tool for communication, and I was pretty vocal about my disdain for it from the day 1, but that software is just trash.
And I don't even see the need to delve into all that "philosophy of communication" and "culture" you are talking about, the chat itself is just the most inferior one of all I've seen since early 2000's, and I have to use it for daily communication, it's maddening. It lacks the most basic functionality you could expect from a messenger in 2020.
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#909I like FreeCAD but it keeps crashing, slow operations freeze the UI and by slow I mean for up to a minute, it's a bit ugly, failing operations usually just give you a cryptic error message when you apply an operation. If you can get used to the quirks it's a pretty nice tool. I've used worse software but I don't use truly bad software every day.
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#910Azure. From blob storage to DevOps. Almost every interface attached to it, UI or API, is an overcomplicated wedge of grief.
I can navigate it, sure. But I'd also use an elevator caked in dried urine, to get to the top of a 14 story building, like most people would. So go figure.