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During my statistics graduate degree, there was one course we had to do our data analysis using SAS. I absolutely despise it and refuse to work for any employer that would expect me to use it.

SPSS is also crap - at my current job there were some processes that used it's scripting "language". It was both painful but cathartic to slowly rewrite those processes into R.

Groupwise. What an ugly, barely functional piece of crap. I'd set notifications for recurring tasks and sometimes it would remind me and then randomly stop for a while. Sending email felt like the early days of AOL. I left for about a year and when I came back, they'd switched to Outlook, which I don't love, but it's miles better than what we had.

The job I worked at for that year had a custom Salesforce thing that made me want to find whoever built it and throw something at them. It was supposed to track what benefits clients were receiving, like SNAP, disability, etc, but it was borderline impossible to read, case notes would cut off, and searches would routinely just not work. It soured me on Salesforce permanently if that's the kind of garbage they're releasing.

Most people wouldn't know about the tool but the ECO suite of tools for ISPs to manage devices is shit (unless they rewrote it since I last worked on it). Companies paid millions in licensing and the damn thing barely worked. It could take two hours to install despite being bundled as an RPM. Code was also a mess of overrides and black magic techniques that made it near impossible to trace and test. And I just remembered the UI was written in Java and it was source controlled by SVN.

Oh man im not sure if i hate HPSM more or the in house dumpster fire my corp replaced it with

Adobe Experience Manager aka Adobe Designer. Unfortunately I still have to use it occasionally at my current job.

Anyone ever use Accela?

3DS MAX, Zbrush

Oh man, outlook? Mostly just because I hate email. Or slack because I hate people being able to just grab my attention from what I'm working on.

Right now, I'm getting super fed up with SCVMM. I'm used to vcenter and having to migrate everything last minute to hyper-v keeps showing me why I've always gone VMware for everything. It's just a clunky, unoptimized UI, giving me cryptic errors with surprisingly little online documentation. I feel like Microsoft really, really could do better but they don't want an alternative to Azure so they make it intentionally hard. It's just unoptimized software with too much overhead for a hypervisor.

Getting this deployed and configured is a battle of two steps forward and one step backwards.

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At my last job we used a proprietary rapid application development tool to do .. everything. It had been used for decades and it’s basically a designer window like Microsoft’s asp net stuff and pseudo code in the background for multi Plattform Desktops and web Applications. The rad in itself is okay: it is written in c++, reasonably fast and has node and js integrations. Buut as said the tool had been used for decades without major refactorings or rewrites or what not. So the codebase was a mix of awful ( you can name variables if so if if is possible ) and straight up outdated. I’d regularly find „commit-comments“ (the integrated vcs is also shit) written before I was born. It was a pain to work with. And we never used the js or node integrations since the new dev lead didn’t know much about developing outside of in said tool which made everything more complicated. So I’m kinda happy to work with js now.