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Ask HN: What 5 software tools do you use most for work?

28 pointsby cagrimmettalmost 8 years ago
What 5 software tools do you use most for work and what is your job? Another way of asking this: What software tools would someone need to learn if they had your job?

37 comments

richardknopalmost 8 years ago
Terminal (this is a requirement if you want to do any software related job other than .NET I guess), some sort of a text editor with code code highlighting (Sublime), internet browser (reading documentation is a big part of my job), email client (reading &amp; replying to work emails), version control (git).<p>Those are basics but there are additional tools which you&#x27;ll probably need to use daily as well (JIRA, Slack or their equivalents, for example).
amirouchealmost 8 years ago
As developper:<p>1. a GNU&#x2F;Linux (Ubuntu or Debian)<p>2. urxvt or terminology, I use always the same commnands (cd, ls, git, emacs, find, ag)<p>3. emacs with elpy, rainbow-delimiters and web-mode using monokai theme<p>4. i3 window manager<p>5. weechat<p>And I am looking for a proper email client (webmail or whatever).
twobyfouralmost 8 years ago
Software team lead &#x2F; manager. Aside from the self-evident non-role-specific stuff (browser, email, slack):<p>1) Jira 2) [Text editor of choice] 3) Mac&#x2F;Unix command line 4) Git 5) [To-do manager of choice]
pwasonalmost 8 years ago
Firefox, M$ Office (:&#x2F;), XenCenter, RoyalTS (all on Windows), and misc. Linuxy stuff..<p>I&#x27;m the IT Guy for a small non-profit research and development company in the higher education sector.<p>Firefox is used for Spiceworks, various web-based management consoles for our storage devices (and webmin on Linux VMs), and general web stuff. M$ Office is mostly just Outlook and Excel. XenCenter to manage our XenServer infrastructure, and RoyalTS is for RDC-ing to various servers and workstations. Most Linux admin is done via webmin, or shell.
Communitivityalmost 8 years ago
Emacs, Eclipse, Lein, Maven, Node. Two additional ones are in my kit box by default, for different reasons, Java and MS Office. Java is required for Lein, Eclipse, and Maven, and occasional Java components. Node is needed for tool automation, in my case. Emacs is used for general editing needs, and Clojure coding. MS Office is needed because any delivery which does not include documentation doesn&#x27;t count, and many I work with require documentation in MS Office form.
jamesjguthriealmost 8 years ago
Research engineer<p>Every single working day for the past 3 or 4 years vim, terminal, C++, Chrome, and just recently CUDA.
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NumberCruncheralmost 8 years ago
Data Scientist:<p>SQL Developer, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Excel, Jira<p>We are a &quot;SAS shop&quot;, therefore SAS is a must. Knowing other SAS products helps to recognize when a statement like &quot;it is not possible&quot; in reality means &quot;I am not in the mood for working&quot;.
1_playeralmost 8 years ago
Full stack freelance engineer:<p>Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Trello, Google Chrome, and Skype :(
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29052017almost 8 years ago
SW Developer, Growth Hacker, Founder<p>Heres the list:-<p>1. Operating system ( mostly Linux )<p>2. Desktop ( mostly gnome )<p>3. Keyboard&#x2F;mouse&#x2F;LCD .... drivers .. ( can&#x27;t work without them, eh! )<p>4. Browser ( mostly firefox )<p>5. Google ( its a SW tool alright! )
justincliftalmost 8 years ago
Doing Go web application dev:<p>• Linux (Fedora 25 atm), as debugging in Go only works well on Linux. Would use OSX if Go debugging actually worked properly there. ;)<p>• Gogland (JetBrains Go IDE)<p>• Terminal<p>• pgAdmin (PostgreSQL GUI)<p>• Git<p>• and various web browsers
12s12malmost 8 years ago
<p><pre><code> 1. Gnome Terminal 2. Neovim 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dattanchu&#x2F;pymodoro) 5. Git</code></pre>
redpandaattacalmost 8 years ago
Game producer:<p>Unity, Sourcetree, Trello, Sketch.app, Apple Notes
donaltroddynalmost 8 years ago
CTO: 1. Chrome 2. Pycharm 3. Docker 4. Git 5. Boto<p>TBH though, a lot of my time is spent in Gmail (in Chrome) these days.
aguilarmalmost 8 years ago
Sysadmin&#x2F;web developer: kubectl&#x2F;docker, Terminal, Intellij&#x2F;jetbrains IDEs, Unix tooling, Git
qmarchialmost 8 years ago
Hourly Programmer: * VS Code * TypeScript * _technically_ open source orchestration platform * Vivaldi * Sketch.app
yshiranalmost 8 years ago
As a quality owner, I use Lotus Notes, Jira, PPT, Excel, and other in-house DB applications.
akg_67almost 8 years ago
Freelance Data Analyst&#x2F;Data Engineering&#x2F;Data Science...<p>R, Python, Jupyter, Tableau, MySQL Workbench
kc10almost 8 years ago
Fullstack engineer<p>IntelliJ at home(Eclipse at work), Sublime, Office Suite, Sequel Pro, Chrome Dev Tools
awhiskeyshotalmost 8 years ago
<p><pre><code> 1. Cygwin (Babun) 2. Sublime Text 3. Slack 4. Chrome 5. Mercurial</code></pre>
robpethickalmost 8 years ago
C# Software Developer: Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL Server, web browser, slack
mijndertalmost 8 years ago
Infrastructure engineer: iTerm, Sublime Text, 1Password, Slack, Google Chrome.
eswatalmost 8 years ago
Product Designer&#x2F;Developer<p>Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision
jakebellaceraalmost 8 years ago
Marketing web developer. Do web applications count?<p>Atom, git, PHP, Databricks, Google Docs
itsuzanalmost 8 years ago
Notepad++, Oracle SQL Developer, Google Chrome, Skype for Business
superasnalmost 8 years ago
[1] PhpStorm [2] adminer [3] Gdocs [4] Putty [5] Dropbox
fuzzygroupalmost 8 years ago
Software Engineer: iTerm, TextMate, Enpass, Ruby, Git
AnimalMuppetalmost 8 years ago
Emacs, gcc, Android Studio, Putty, and, um, Outlook.
RUG3Yalmost 8 years ago
- GNOME Terminal<p>- Sublime Text 3<p>- Chrome &#x2F; dev tools<p>- Virtualenvs &#x2F; Virtualenvwrapper
cm2012almost 8 years ago
Marketing consultant:<p>Facebook ads<p>Google ads<p>Microsoft excel<p>Google analytics&#x2F;analytics of choice<p>Mailchimp&#x2F;Email automation of choice<p>Zapier
tumdum_almost 8 years ago
ssh, zsh, tmux, xterm, vim. In no particular order! I work in telco as sw dev.
wry_discontentalmost 8 years ago
Emacs, Chrome, Pry, Heroku, Git
lambdafanalmost 8 years ago
Linux Haskell (stack)<p>emacs (magit, intero)
OMARIONCLOVISalmost 8 years ago
WHAT SOFTWARE DO USE IN YOUR EVER DAY FIFE OF BEING HACK
miguelrochefortalmost 8 years ago
- Visual Studio<p>- Team Foundation Server<p>- Git<p>- Outlook<p>- Chrome
drakonkaalmost 8 years ago
* Visual Studio<p>* Notepad++<p>* Search Everything<p>* Terminal<p>* Google Chrome
spcelzrdalmost 8 years ago
- Xcode<p>- iOS Simulator<p>- git<p>- vim<p>- bash (to automate things)
tmalyalmost 8 years ago
vim, tmux, bash, perl, make