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Ask HN: What technology did you recently use, but wouldn't like to use again?

7 points by petr25102018 6y ago

The technology can be a language, library, framework, cloud provider, code editor, saas or anything relevant to software development.

rdtwo 6y ago
I really hate Shopify checkout experience. It’s such a dumpster fire under load. Once a hot product drops the only people that can checkout are people that are using sophisticated scripts and bots.
- petr25102018 6y ago
  Interesting. I actually have kinda bad experience with writing some integration for Shopify. Mainly I was under the impression that they have to be good since they are so famous, but the developer experience is lacking. For instance, they are migrating REST API to GraphQL so something can be done using their official Python client, while some other things can't.
  - rdtwo 6y ago
    I think it’s good if you are selling 1 or 2 items an hour. If you are trying to sell 1000 in 1 minute the checkout process does not queue well so bots skip ahead of real users
potta_coffee 6y ago
Social media, Google phone, my laptop, and .NET.
deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
logicslave 6y ago
AWS Cloudformation
- jetti 6y ago
  Mine is similar and that is Terraform
dave_sid 6y ago
My microwave. The door keeps sticking.
franzwong 6y ago
Angular
croo 6y ago
Liferay. Its a special kind of hell. I will never mention it on my CV.
dyingkneepad 6y ago
The Domino's website. If I want to order a single pizza I have to click through like 12+ pages. They have a page for each question! - I want to order pizza - Delivery or checkout? - Which pizza? - Extra chesse? - Modify ingredients? - Go to checkout or order more stuff? - But wouldn't you like one of these desserts? - How about soda? - Here's your order, click to continue - Would you like to donate? - Oh you wanna pay now? Input your password again. We'll silently screw the whole process if you type it wrong. - Now you can finally click to continue - Want SMS? Click one last time. They could just, you know, put safe defaults on everything and let me change them if I want. I am less likely to order pizza form them again just because it takes so long on their website. Compare that to how easy it is to buy something from Amazon. Heck, even Grubhub is miles easier. Edit: formatting.
moksly 6y ago
.Net core.
DarrenDev 6y ago
Biztalk.
rxsel 6y ago
Covid-19 Rapid Test

7 points by petr25102018 6y ago

The technology can be a language, library, framework, cloud provider, code editor, saas or anything relevant to software development.

rdtwo 6y ago

I really hate Shopify checkout experience. It’s such a dumpster fire under load. Once a hot product drops the only people that can checkout are people that are using sophisticated scripts and bots.

petr25102018 6y ago
Interesting. I actually have kinda bad experience with writing some integration for Shopify. Mainly I was under the impression that they have to be good since they are so famous, but the developer experience is lacking. For instance, they are migrating REST API to GraphQL so something can be done using their official Python client, while some other things can't.
- rdtwo 6y ago
  I think it’s good if you are selling 1 or 2 items an hour. If you are trying to sell 1000 in 1 minute the checkout process does not queue well so bots skip ahead of real users

potta_coffee 6y ago

Social media, Google phone, my laptop, and .NET.

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

logicslave 6y ago

AWS Cloudformation

jetti 6y ago
Mine is similar and that is Terraform

dave_sid 6y ago

My microwave. The door keeps sticking.

franzwong 6y ago

Angular

croo 6y ago

Liferay. Its a special kind of hell. I will never mention it on my CV.

dyingkneepad 6y ago

The Domino's website. If I want to order a single pizza I have to click through like 12+ pages. They have a page for each question! - I want to order pizza - Delivery or checkout? - Which pizza? - Extra chesse? - Modify ingredients? - Go to checkout or order more stuff? - But wouldn't you like one of these desserts? - How about soda? - Here's your order, click to continue - Would you like to donate? - Oh you wanna pay now? Input your password again. We'll silently screw the whole process if you type it wrong. - Now you can finally click to continue - Want SMS? Click one last time. They could just, you know, put safe defaults on everything and let me change them if I want. I am less likely to order pizza form them again just because it takes so long on their website. Compare that to how easy it is to buy something from Amazon. Heck, even Grubhub is miles easier. Edit: formatting.

moksly 6y ago

.Net core.

DarrenDev 6y ago

Biztalk.

rxsel 6y ago

Covid-19 Rapid Test