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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?

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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 & replying to work emails), version control (git).

Those are basics but there are additional tools which you'll probably need to use daily as well (JIRA, Slack or their equivalents, for example).

As developper:

1. a GNU/Linux (Ubuntu or Debian)

2. urxvt or terminology, I use always the same commnands (cd, ls, git, emacs, find, ag)

3. emacs with elpy, rainbow-delimiters and web-mode using monokai theme

4. i3 window manager

5. weechat

And I am looking for a proper email client (webmail or whatever).

Software team lead / manager. Aside from the self-evident non-role-specific stuff (browser, email, slack):

1) Jira 2) [Text editor of choice] 3) Mac/Unix command line 4) Git 5) [To-do manager of choice]

Firefox, M$ Office (:/), XenCenter, RoyalTS (all on Windows), and misc. Linuxy stuff..

I'm the IT Guy for a small non-profit research and development company in the higher education sector.

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.

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't count, and many I work with require documentation in MS Office form.

Research engineer

Every single working day for the past 3 or 4 years vim, terminal, C++, Chrome, and just recently CUDA.

Sounds fun =)

Data Scientist:

SQL Developer, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Excel, Jira

We are a "SAS shop", therefore SAS is a must. Knowing other SAS products helps to recognize when a statement like "it is not possible" in reality means "I am not in the mood for working".

Full stack freelance engineer:

Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Trello, Google Chrome, and Skype :(

don't like skype?

I'm sorry, you are breaking up. Can you repeat that?

SW Developer, Growth Hacker, Founder

Heres the list:-

1. Operating system ( mostly Linux )

2. Desktop ( mostly gnome )

3. Keyboard/mouse/LCD .... drivers .. ( can't work without them, eh! )

4. Browser ( mostly firefox )

5. Google ( its a SW tool alright! )

Doing Go web application dev:

• Linux (Fedora 25 atm), as debugging in Go only works well on Linux. Would use OSX if Go debugging actually worked properly there. ;)

• Gogland (JetBrains Go IDE)

• Terminal

• pgAdmin (PostgreSQL GUI)

• Git

• and various web browsers

  1. Gnome Terminal
  2. Neovim
  3. Google Chrome
  4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro)
  5. Git

Game producer:

Unity, Sourcetree, Trello, Sketch.app, Apple Notes

CTO: 1. Chrome 2. Pycharm 3. Docker 4. Git 5. Boto

TBH though, a lot of my time is spent in Gmail (in Chrome) these days.

Sysadmin/web developer: kubectl/docker, Terminal, Intellij/jetbrains IDEs, Unix tooling, Git

Hourly Programmer: * VS Code * TypeScript * _technically_ open source orchestration platform * Vivaldi * Sketch.app

As a quality owner, I use Lotus Notes, Jira, PPT, Excel, and other in-house DB applications.

Freelance Data Analyst/Data Engineering/Data Science...

R, Python, Jupyter, Tableau, MySQL Workbench

Fullstack engineer

IntelliJ at home(Eclipse at work), Sublime, Office Suite, Sequel Pro, Chrome Dev Tools

  1. Cygwin (Babun)
  2. Sublime Text
  3. Slack
  4. Chrome
  5. Mercurial

C# Software Developer: Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL Server, web browser, slack

Infrastructure engineer: iTerm, Sublime Text, 1Password, Slack, Google Chrome.

Product Designer/Developer

Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision

Marketing web developer. Do web applications count?

Atom, git, PHP, Databricks, Google Docs

Notepad++, Oracle SQL Developer, Google Chrome, Skype for Business

[1] PhpStorm [2] adminer [3] Gdocs [4] Putty [5] Dropbox

Software Engineer: iTerm, TextMate, Enpass, Ruby, Git

Emacs, gcc, Android Studio, Putty, and, um, Outlook.

- GNOME Terminal

- Sublime Text 3

- Chrome / dev tools

- Virtualenvs / Virtualenvwrapper

Marketing consultant:

Facebook ads

Google ads

Microsoft excel

Google analytics/analytics of choice

Mailchimp/Email automation of choice

Zapier

ssh, zsh, tmux, xterm, vim. In no particular order! I work in telco as sw dev.

Emacs, Chrome, Pry, Heroku, Git

Linux Haskell (stack)

emacs (magit, intero)

WHAT SOFTWARE DO USE IN YOUR EVER DAY FIFE OF BEING HACK

- Visual Studio

- Team Foundation Server

- Git

- Outlook

- Chrome

* Visual Studio

* Notepad++

* Search Everything

* Terminal

* Google Chrome

- Xcode

- iOS Simulator

- git

- vim

- bash (to automate things)

vim, tmux, bash, perl, make

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