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What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job? (lemmy.world)

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I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 81 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Due to really dumb requirements we had an app that used Python, Visual basic, C and C++, MATLAB, R and JavaScript. I'm not describing an application stack. This was a single binary. The amalgamation was so disturbing that it couldn't even shut down once run, instead asking the operating system to please, please kill me.

Part of the installation procedure involves disabling all SSL certificate verification on company machines.

[-] perkeo@feddit.de 24 points 8 months ago

That sounds actually a bit impressive

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

It takes skill to fail this badly.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

What a bizarre monster. Do you know it's history? Maybe devs changed a couple of times or something? It seems to be a pain to even understand it's insides as a lead with that many languages.

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

I mean, that sounds completely horrible, but it says something about the world of web, when it is not that different than any regular frontent/backend web stack. I.e. HTML + CSS + javascript + backend language + sql + random shit on top of it, all in the single project. And that's even before talking about native apps for mobile.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

But GitHub gives you a prettier rainbow when your repo has more languages!

[-] nexusband@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Oh god, this post will hunt me down via nightmares ...

[-] dmrzl@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a regular PhD student project.

[-] hooferboof@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Was it called BERTA?

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