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Reliable: vim, Microsoft Word/Excel, SQLite, tmux, GNU coreutils, svn I think most would agree with most of the items, although svn warrants an explanation. I
by eel 10y ago
Reliable: vim, Microsoft Word/Excel, SQLite, tmux, GNU coreutils, svn
I think most would agree with most of the items, although svn warrants an explanation. I prefer the paradigm of git, but svn always impresses me with its ability to handle large repositories and large files out of the box without falling over.
- reitanqild 10y agoWord has destroyed lots of work for my ex-colleagues. Also it was such a major pain when I had work with two other students on my final project that I ended up doing the last major changes in Open Office writer before reopening in Word to finish off the last details. Admittedly I guess this had a lot to do with how some people don't want to learn how to use styles but Word didn't help either.
- pdm55 10y agoWord was fine for my PhD. My supervisor from those times - now 80 and still collaborating with scientists from around the world - has written hundreds of papers with it. I think I can speak for him when I say that over the last 30 years he has found it a far more reliable option than the typewriter and carbon paper he used to write his own PhD in the 1960s. I frequently use Excel for calculations. Just the simplest way to check I have entered the correct numbers.
- lucb1e 10y agoWord and Excel are not that reliable at all. I can't say LibreOffice is much better, but all graphical office software has let me down more often than I'd like to recount. Excel has trouble opening any kind of CSV files, let alone if they're a bit too big. Word recently got stuck in a "save loop", making you painstakingly click the "don't save" option on your work because trying to save does nothing anymore. Both examples are from the past two months.