Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jmb12686 » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

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…

Docker most definitely has ARM and multi-architecture support. That is, assuming the particular image you are attempting to pull has been published using the Manifest V2 spec and has ARM images published. The issue you mention is an issue with the image publisher/maintainer not Docker itself.

I maintain a number of Docker images that have multiarch support (as seen in the Tags view on DockerHub:

https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/socat/ https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/unifi https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/elasticsearch/ https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/kibana/ https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/filebeat/ https://hub.docker.com/r/jmb12686/cadvisor/

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

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Post by malthejorgensen » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

busyant wrote: post #404

Sorry, but everything listed here is rank amateur stuff when compared to Blackboard Learn ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Learn ). First, the user interface is designed as if the programmers were incentivized to maximize the number of clicks required to get anywhere. Second, it has the responsiveness of continental drift. Third, editing and formatting text is an exercise in torture. When I want to delete t…

We're building Eduflow (https://www.eduflow.com) – a light-weight LMS born out of some of the same frustration aired in this thread: LMSs are to enterprisey and seem to be designed with somebody else than the actual end-user in mind.

(Plus, we were in YC batch S17 with the predecessor to Eduflow – Peergrade)

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

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Post by snwfog » Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 10:45 PM UTC

Slack

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

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Post by Goose90053 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

Quicken

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

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Post by sk5t » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 3:31 AM UTC

filoeleven wrote: post #949

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #315

Microsoft Outlook - decade after decade the icons change but the suckage does not, its 1987 every day when you use Outlook. Microsoft Teams - drains my battery 1% every two minutes Slack - the original “let’s forget everything we’ve learned about communications and try to discover it again”. From the threads feature nobody wants to the inability to silence bots or plugins, Slack never fails to disappoint. They pitch…

I would LOVE to use Outlook. I’m sure I’d love other mail clients even more; it’s just that we use Lotus Notes.

The Notes ("Domino") server comes with an IMAP "task" in the Notes parlance; maybe your admin has allowed that to run?

It was always kind of funny that the thing Notes was the worst at--being a mail client--was also its primary function at a lot of organizations.

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

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Post by tcbasche » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 5:21 AM UTC

QGIS but sadly I don't think I could come close to creating something that huge and still free. Doesn't make it less frustrating that it's buggy as shit

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

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Post by tcbasche » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 5:23 AM UTC

pachico wrote: post #316

Jira is my daily nightmare. I guess the "no CTO was ever fired for choosing SAP" applies to Jira too. It just does the opposite of that it tries to do, which is making development tracking easy (not to mention those silly ideas coming from agile coaches to use Jira to measure wrong things, which makes of it a horrible combo).

I think for the most part it works well, it just has frustrating quirks like sometimes not being able to save comments (what the hell?) or attach images. Having said that though, the user experience is also really laggy... I think if it was faster it would be less frustrating

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

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Post by devn0ll » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 5:55 AM UTC

Checkpoint VPN. It does not run on Linux so I need to run a Windows VM just for this piece of cr4p software. And it's slow.

Besides that: Jira. (A distant second to Checkpoint though)

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

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Post by jesterson » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:40 AM UTC

toastercat wrote: post #378

Skype for Business. Everyone I've spoken to in my company has had connection, audio, or screen-sharing issues. Personally, I consistantly have issues with what I've listed plus instances where Skype just flat out refuses to launch, or it crashes, or messages are randomly dropped or fail to send, or file/image transfers that just do not work . It is truly baffling. I noticed another comment thread about Microsoft Team…

And Skype in general.

Does anyone have skype working on ios? No, it does launch and even works, but messages are delayed, calls are delayed.

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

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Post by vishaltelangre » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 6:51 AM UTC

Messages app on iOS is the most frustrating app I have to use often and Apple doesn't allow any alternative as well. There is no way to star/pin certain messages in it. It doesn't allow copy-pasting partial text in a message. Results of searched query are often not what I am looking for. Finding historical messages in some date range takes minutes.

Many other Apple-built apps and products (especially those that cannot have any 3rd-party alternatives) are horrible to use.