Superhuman. It's the only software I use at work that I pay for myself because it makes dealing with email so much less painful. To the point that it's actually almost enjoyable clearing out my inbox. The ability to do absolutely everything from the keyboard and being so responsive really makes a huge difference.
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#242Vivado. It's for FPGA design, and I while do ASIC design, but I use vivado to visualise my RTL structure. I find it better than any of the major EDA vendors RTL schematic viewers (except perhaps starvision). I know people rag on Vivado for other reasons, but it's visualisation is fantastic!
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#243Confluence. It's so easy to organise information and documentation now for technical projects. Of course its free form so people can be messy with it, but done right, and with the good plugins, like draw.io it's really powerful. Integrates very well with JIRA also.
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#244I have fond memories of SecureCRT as an ssh terminal on windows and Mac. It works on Linux too however.
It was just better than the regular ssh client.
Really worth it's price, if anything because you can create a set of sessions and share them with all your colleagues.
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#245Jetbrains IntelliJ. I use it for html, JS, CSS, Vue, node.js, Python, Java, SQL, etc. I’ve tried visual studio and some other IDEs, but find intellij to be superior in every way.
Except being a bit too strict about style. I've started using Rider midway in a project, its formatting didn't really follow a style. Now every time I paste stuff or do anything really the whole file gets reformatted. You can find lots of people complaining about that. And it's not a new problem either: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/po... https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/com…
You can configure it to not auto format or format only modified lines, in addition to using whatever style formats you actually want...
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#246Surprised by the answers given here. If I hear 'enterprise', I'm thinking SAP, IBM, Oracle. SAS etc., not some dev environments or niche tools.
Same. Someone asks about 'enterprise s/w' and everyone starts spouting their favorite 'commercial s/w' and apparently everyone seems to get along with it.
Is HN overrun by coding noobs who are pathologically handicapped in the size of their vocabulary? How the eff is 'IntelliJ' an enterprise s/w?
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#247Splunk! If only it didn't cost an arm and a leg. No other solution, open or closed comes close. Second best: Office 365
Have you looked at Sumo Logic?
Thank you! First time hearing of it. I just looked it up, it looks similar to Azure sentinel? Is it really cheaper than on-prem splunk?
Good query language (rollup,piping,stats,etc...),visualization and rich function set (eval and stats functions in splunk) is a minimum requirement for me. Tried Kibana,Graylog,Sentinel and a few others I can't mention here.
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#248Surprised by the answers given here. If I hear 'enterprise', I'm thinking SAP, IBM, Oracle. SAS etc., not some dev environments or niche tools.
Yep, RHEL would be an example of open source enterprise software.
Borderline. The 'E' in RHEL doesn't imply RHEL itself is an enterprise s/w, more that it's an OS best suited for 'running enterprise s/w on'.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely am on the opposite side when it comes to Tableau. After you get over the initial learning curve you start to realize that everything in Tableau when working with calculated fields is a workaround. If your data doesn't already look amazing going into Tableau you're in for a bad time.
Calculated fields are simply field level transformations in SQL. They aren't workarounds as such, but they are often used for workarounds. The most common workarounds are for folks coming in with an Excel mindset (where operations are cell-level) who want to accomplish something that is easy in Excel but hard in Tableau. For instance, almost everything in Tableau is an aggregation, so displaying a simple unaggregated…
Thank you for your post.
I have really struggled with some “easy” stuff in Tableau and gave up. But rephrasing it’s strengths and weaknesses around mindset and to think about it more like sql sounds like a good approach that I’ll try next time I meet it.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to use it for Scala, sometimes the editor would hang for 30-40s (probably even more but I don't want to sound like I'm exagerating.) I moved back to Emacs+Metals which suits me better (it's hard to leave Emacs after 20+ years of use.) Nevertheless I still think Intellij is an awesome piece of software and I still start it sometimes to get useful features which are not available in Metals, like inline type anno…
Intellij is awesome, and I use it for Scala with Emacs keybindings as well but like you said, the performance is just atrocious. Memory leaks, stutters, hangs, bad latency, you name it. Every Scala dev team I've been on constantly curses at Intellij. And yet, no one switches, because the functionality it provides is so good. I never could get ensime to work, but I should try metals.
Most of this is the Scala plugin. I eventually stopped writing Scala because of this and other reasons.