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

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Post by closeparen »

mrweasel wrote: post #185
closeparen wrote: post #144

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What? Tasks (unit of work) and Diffs (unit of code review) are its two central entities. Which parts of it were you using, if not those?

Sounds like that may not be Phabricators fault in that case. I was under the impression that you'd need Arcanist if you wanted to do reviews of diffs. The problem may have been that we where only allowed to use the Git part.

Ah. Arc is just a script for submitting the patch from your working copy to Diffusion (like emailing to LKML). Technically you could paste “git diff” into the web UI.

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Post by thu2111 »

dcminter wrote: post #252
irrational wrote: post #43

Jetbrains 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.

You know, I just don't get the love for IntelliJ. I used to use Eclipse (or more often than not Spring Tool Suite) and I rather liked that. More and more I'm obliged to use IntelliJ and in comparison it just seems ... okay. Its suggestions stuff is nice, and it works reasonably well. In particular it supports multiple languages much better than Eclipse's motley range of plugins. So I can see why your list of uses mak…

There's a problems view! It's a bit hidden though. Go Help -> Find Action, type "Problems" and hit enter. You can also get to it by clicking the little red or yellow square in the top right of the editor.

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

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Post by thu2111 »

lma21 wrote: post #284
dcminter wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, I just don't get the love for IntelliJ. I used to use Eclipse (or more often than not Spring Tool Suite) and I rather liked that. More and more I'm obliged to use IntelliJ and in comparison it just seems ... okay. Its suggestions stuff is nice, and it works reasonably well. In particular it supports multiple languages much better than Eclipse's motley range of plugins. So I can see why your list of uses mak…

> You can't run code unless the whole project compiles (poor for quick sanity check, test driven development, and refactoring breaking changes). What do you mean by _running_ specific parts of the code? Isn't this a language problem (compile all dependencies (classes) to byte code, package .class files in jar files, define the main class, define the classpath, and then run)?

Eclipse uses a special compiler that can compile code even if it's got errors. Parts of the code that don't compile get compiled to just a stub that throws an exception.

Some devs really like this. I never really encounter it as a problem because for any refactoring, I prefer to use IntelliJ's refactoring tools that ensure all code (that's in your project at least) gets rewritten in the same moment the refactoring occurs.

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Post by ta17711771 »

wenc wrote: post #72

Things that we pay for. SQL Server : it's not cheap, but it's genuinely good. Live query plans, clustered columnstore indices, linked servers, rich SQL features. Tableau : more than a dashboarding tool, it's actually a really good multivariate exploratory data analysis (EDA) tool. You can use it to visualize multidimensional data easily. I do use Jupyter (seaborn, plotly) and R (ggplot2) which are good, but Tableau l…

Do you know any way to build .MSI installers from VS Code?

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Post by ta17711771 »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #305
moooo99 wrote: post #239

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I haven't met a single person in any IT area who usually works with non-SAP products who likes SAP. Even a lot of the people in the SAP departments dislike SAP. The only people are I've met that all love SAP are SAP employees living in my area, which isn't too surprising I guess.

+1. Wish I could make it +10. SAP is such a pain. Our org got married to it years ago and there aren't budgets big enough to undo it. At least it's stable enough. Oracle is another ballgame -- they're just terrible.

Can I get in touch with you to discuss this a little further?

Pointedly: If there were organizations that reproduced their modules independently, and integrated into them well enough to "stay on one system" at the finance level until they're able to slowly pick away at replacing each one and data collections into a main db in a sane, nonconvoluted or expensive way? (Unlike SAP)

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Post by thehappypm »

supernova87a wrote: post #224
thehappypm wrote: post #4

I love using Tableau. It has completely changed the way I analyze data -- things that would have taken me a minute or two in Excel takes literally seconds in Tableau.

What's Tableau's special secret to handling data? Is it doing table indexing, summary, and array manipulation in a smarter way compared to dumb Excel?

It’s honestly just speed. Want to sum this, broken out by that, filtering out this other thing? Oh want to make it an area chart instead of a bar chart? Add a color code? These things are just super fast and easy to do

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Post by petercooper »

kristopolous wrote: post #119

I've tried not to be impressed by airtable, but their on the fly API documentation generators for how you configure things still feels like black magic. Every time I want to be dismissive of the product, it's exceeded what I believed to be an extremely unlikely to meet set of expectations. They've clearly got some pretty competent people. I'd love to draft them somehow Beyond that, the services of namecheap Ava digit…

Airtable also gets my vote, but not having webhooks or even a way to delete an entire base's set of items really grinds my gears as the workarounds are so inelegant (currently I have a script that deletes several thousand rows in batches which works well but seems inane).

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Post by _8j50 »

slyall wrote: post #262
_8j50 wrote: post #247

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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.

Sumo is cheaper the Splunk from all accounts but still pretty expensive. Think half the price of Splunk perhaps. It's still nice but we ended up spending a lot of time trying to keep out bill down by not sending data to it since the price is based on the number of GB/day you send it.

That pricing model is a big turn off. Really looking for something that lets you process events to use a smart approach to pick and choose what to ingest before you get billed for it.

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Post by winrid »

klohto wrote: post #226
winrid wrote: post #189

Absolutely loved SumoLogic for the six years or so we used it. Threw terabytes of logs at them a month and searches were always fast. Being able to do joins on logs was a godsend. I tried to work there but it seemed like they stopped hiring for a while. Now I use Loggly... It's okay. IDEA's IDEs as others have mentioned. I've built enterprise software I enjoyed using (reputation.com), does that count? :)

I wasn't aware of SumoLogic but at $2.5/GB ingested, they seem expensive. I understand that at TB a month of logs Elasticsearch stops being viable, but what made SumoLogic so great except the speed to warrant the cost?

We spent a lot of money on Sumo indeed. But when it helps you keep churn down it can pay off.

You can also parse the logs and create alerts and dashboards from the parsed values.

We only retained the logs for 30 days, so you could use Elastic/Kibana and we did for our dev/qa environments. However people hated it compared to Sumo.

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