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Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by anix »

mrslave wrote: post #50
dave_sid wrote: post #23

Not Jira. Hahahahaha.

Is anyone just using Git{Hub,Lab,Tea} issues and being fine with it? Is the absence of a Kanban board a deal breaker? Perhaps for management.

Github has Projects, which IMO does a pretty decent job.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by martinrame »

enchiridion wrote: post #18
leokennis wrote: post #10

Two: - UltraEdit. What Photoshop is to images, UltraEdit is to text. The weird thing is, it’s not a super flashy or even immediately intuitive tool. But once you get the hang of it, it never fails to deliver. - Excel. It’s insane the breadth of stuff you can do with it. And as a tool, it’s equally handy and “oh my God this will save me so much work” for a school teacher as it is for a data analyst and stock broker. I…

Can you give an example of why UltraEdit is better than emacs? Thanks!

:%s/emacs/vim/g

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by perl4ever »

leokennis wrote: post #10

Two: - UltraEdit. What Photoshop is to images, UltraEdit is to text. The weird thing is, it’s not a super flashy or even immediately intuitive tool. But once you get the hang of it, it never fails to deliver. - Excel. It’s insane the breadth of stuff you can do with it. And as a tool, it’s equally handy and “oh my God this will save me so much work” for a school teacher as it is for a data analyst and stock broker. I…

I have very mixed feelings about Excel, having been using it intensively over the last year where I never did before. It has a large number of components with overlapping functionality, apparently designed by separate teams at different times, all missing crucial functionality when I want to make some sort of BI type of solution. You have DAX, you have VBA, you have Power Query, you have the Data Model. And every new area I delve into, after I use it for a few hours, starts giving me weird errors and possibly corrupting my file. The latest is a dialog with a button that says "Send a Frown".

Quote from someone that is not me and not my particular issue, but that expresses the sort of problems endemic to Excel and MS software in general:

"When data is refreshed, I get a message box "Send a Frown" at unpredictable, inconsistent intervals. For example, it will work seamlessly for five or six times then suddenly it will fail, and give this "Send a frown" message.

A normal VBA error handler does not deal with this "Send a frown" message. Not even an "On Error Resume next" deals with it. I can thus not capture or step-over the error (err) and deal with it in my code. When the "Send a frown" message appears, the entire process is on hold until I (the human) clicks on "Send a frown" or "Cancel". This is problematic since this process runs 3am in the morning on our servers for about 200 connection refreshes."

Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by [deleted] »

enchiridion wrote: post #18
leokennis wrote: post #10

Two: - UltraEdit. What Photoshop is to images, UltraEdit is to text. The weird thing is, it’s not a super flashy or even immediately intuitive tool. But once you get the hang of it, it never fails to deliver. - Excel. It’s insane the breadth of stuff you can do with it. And as a tool, it’s equally handy and “oh my God this will save me so much work” for a school teacher as it is for a data analyst and stock broker. I…

Can you give an example of why UltraEdit is better than emacs? Thanks!

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best enterprise software you use every day?

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Post by jokab »

1) nimbletext. when clients send me excel sheets with tons of data to import i would generate insert statements in the sheets themselves. this is a painful experience. Then i found out about nimbletext. its pure joy to use.

2) jailer. I'm a visual kind of guy. so this makes database analysis very easy.

3) onenote. if only it had Linux app i would use it for personal use.

4) visual studio 2019. customized to the bone to be uber productive

5) Autohotkey. got a ms 4000 ergonomic keyboard and binding all keys a journey in itself

I'll stop right here but i have tons of other tools i really enjoy using.

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