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Comment by harha | Hacker News Reader

The two worst things about going to work are Citrix and the coffee. WFH only fixes one of them.

Imagine how bad Citrix is as an end user of it. Now imagine having to be the one that sets all that up and maintains it. And has to deal with their support.

Citrix Cloud is also hilariously bad

Coffee is one of those things for me where no matter how bad it is, it's still good.

If it's brown, liquid and caffeinated then I'm happy. Especially if I'm drinking it first thing in the morning.

Not that I don't enjoy good coffee. But my bar is pretty low.

Throw some crystal reports and a “coffee bag” (as in like the tea bag) for good measure and a dash of Sharepoint and DCOM. Now we are talking. DAO recordsets too (no not DAO as in Ethereum!)

Crystal Reports! <shudder> that name hasn’t been mentioned in my house (or thought about) in nearly 2 decades.

Ever want to use crystal reports to generate scannable paper correspondence for tens of thousands of businesses in a single job? The state of Wisconsin sure did!

I was going to comment when the Citrix Workspace updater popped up even though I explicitly asked not to be notified about updates, a setting that is hidden by the worst settings menu I've ever seen on a Mac app (there seem to be ways to stop the app to run in the background, but why does it even need to? It's not like 2 seconds of startup time will make any difference with the latency I experience working with the product)

Anyhow, I was so happy Sharepoint was dropped for OneDrive, a slightly less bad product (and same with Teams/Skype)

DCOM. The Guantanamo Bay of distributed computing.

Still not as bad as QuickTime.

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