I kinda hate the Google Photos UI, UX. Overall it seems very disjointed and it is hard to figure out how to do the things I want to actually do. And then trying to explain it to anybody else is another round of ux hell. It also kills me when I try to upload some photos and then it tells me some failed to upload, and then it doesn't give me any useful way to retry them. No error message that explains why they failed, either. Even though sometimes they do work the 2nd time. W-hate-ver.

Personally, I mostly detest every UI change Firefox ever makes, it would seem. E.g. the latest cylon mode activity animation in the tab thing. Just awful.

It is the year 2017, and as far as I know there is no computer OS that can handle multiple monitors really well, including sometimes just utterly losing video. New macbook pro usb c touchstrip latest mac os x flails in various annoying ways. Relatively recent Ubuntu 16.04 often freaks out wrt multiple monitors, and even goes blank after re-plugging in a video cable. I haven't touched a windows box in a long time, and nothing much newer than Win 7, so I dunno there, but I'd guess there are fubar things about that experience as well.

As far as I can tell, there's no obvious choice for a good photo/image viewer and copier on Linux. gThumb is sorta least bad of all the things I've seen, and it is kind of a complete UX train wreck.

While I greatly respect the history of Java and the engineering that has gone into the JVMs of various ilk, I have to say that the restrictions inherent in Java and in the JVM and thus in most languages that target the Java ecosystem - those restrictions really suck. Kotlin sucks so far as I can tell because it is trapped by what it can/not do wrt the JVM and Java interop.

Scala tried to have the cake and eat it too, and that in my mind ended up failing in horrible ways where the whole of the suck was greater than the sum of the parts of suck. At least Scala was trying to gloriously exceed any pragmatic realistic possibly sane and mundane restrictions - but trying to break out of the JVM/Java just made Scala all the more insane in the end.

Dunno what Fantom or Gosu or Frege or &c. are like. (I do not think about Groovy much since I am bigoted in favor of (good) static typing.)

Here's my dream: somebody figures out how to use the salt left over from desalination to sequester atmospheric carbon!

Certain things should be deal breakers that kinda make every sane person run away, and you lose all their business.. Like, say, not supporting easy bulk/api downloads?!