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If it's pure python why not use pip?
If it works on Linux, why not use linuxbrew?
Because I have no idea what that is? Using what seems like a ported OSX semi-package manager on ubuntu seems strange.
Facebook PathPicker
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Re: Facebook PathPicker
#142I wrote a small snippet to integrate this with tmux. Simply press for the current buffer to be run through fpp.
See a small example here: http://recordit.co/U2TYvbPC9p
And here's the corresponding code: https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/blob/master/.tmux.conf#L12...
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#143Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…
Hey - I was the person who used this tool the most while I was at FB. Thanks a bunch for open sourcing this I've been missing it.
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#144Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…
How to install it in Linux?
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#145Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…
How to install it in Linux?
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#146Thanks for giving back!
I'm not sure how this would speed up my workflow more than a combination of tab completion, CTRL-R, and quick rushes of double-click-to-select-then-third-button-to-paste, though.
Re: Facebook PathPicker
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Same goes for Google, but you could argue that it's for a reason. FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff. Plus, they have a lot of brilliant developers to work on this stuff. In the end of the day, it's largely about knowing which of these cool utilities have a better chance of being usable and well thought-out, as nobody wants to spend time on…
> FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff. Plus, they have a lot of brilliant developers to work on this stuff. Why do you think so? My experience was quite the opposite... One can argue that large companies don't care about their reputation as much as small companies and individuals do as responsibility gets diluted among the larger number of p…
Not the parent, but it's mostly because open sourced tools from larger companies were usually built internally to solve a pain point. Of course they wouldn't want it to be subpar and affect their efficiency.
> Large companies don't care about their reputation as much as small companies and individuals do as responsibility gets diluted among the larger number of people. This was certainly the case with most of the tech companies.
I think this speaks more about that particular engineer's ownership of the project rather than company itself.
Re: Facebook PathPicker
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Thank you for making the mouse a thing in a keyboard driven world. As someone who grew up with gaming and learned IT as a result I never was able to fully give up on the mouse during my daily workflows. I admire people who can use VIM etc only by keyboard, but my muscle memory just says: mouse. Thanks for establishing something that embraces this.
I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I like using a mouse. I get that some people can work faster with all-keyboard controls. I use both. I also like GUIs for certain things. The only thing I don't like GUIs for is when there is some repetitive thing that I have to do 50 times a day and would require 3 or 4 clicks or menu selections - for those I'd always rather have a single command. Sometimes I make those into shell…
> I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I like using a mouse.
I wish that you weren't even slightly ashamed. Anything can turn into a senseless religion, also supposed productivity.
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#149Dozens of cool utilities like this are created every week and launched at Show HN, but without "Facebook" in their names you need at least 10 of them to get the many points this thread has gathered.
Same goes for Google, but you could argue that it's for a reason. FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff. Plus, they have a lot of brilliant developers to work on this stuff. In the end of the day, it's largely about knowing which of these cool utilities have a better chance of being usable and well thought-out, as nobody wants to spend time on…
> FB/Google have a reputation to uphold and they strive to make sure their name isn't associated with subpar stuff.
Have you seen the "google" group/whatever it's called on Github? A lot of the repos that are posted here have large disclaimers, or here in the comments, that the project is not associated with Google itself but rather by the particular employees that are working on it. So Google doesn't mind letting their employees put up repos of their misc "scratch their itch"/side-project/pet projects, it seems.
> Plus, they have a lot of brilliant developers to work on this stuff.
Someone works at Google/Facebook/... -> commence reflex fawning.
Re: Facebook PathPicker
#150Very useful. Thanks