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Re: Ooops.

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Post by code_duck »

monochromatic wrote: post #49
shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

It's like reading Youtube comments--not for the faint of heart. And the jab at reddit from the HN pedestal is probably misguided... reddit used to be more like HN, and HN is becoming more like the bad parts of reddit every day. Every site tends toward Youtube level comments as time passes, and the people who don't like it eventually jump ship to a new site, and then the process repeats itself.

HN is not at all like the 'bad parts' of Reddit.

Re: Ooops.

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Post by sjs »

brown9-2 wrote: post #52
shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

The change is a few weeks old, and all of the comments are about an hour old. Seems safe to say that the comments reflect more on "people linked to this change from HN/Reddit/etc" than "people that use Github"

I'm not about to go looking at all of their accounts but considering the comments most left it looks like they were already logged in. I doubt they all signed up just to post a 'lol'. I'd put my money on these comments being from an intersection of github and reddit/hn/digg users.

Re: Ooops.

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Post by srdjanjovcic »

statictype wrote: post #41
arethuza wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I knew someone who, in the days of Windows 3.1, managed to accidentally invoke "format c:" from inside Microsoft Word - I was in the same room as them when they did it and heard the cries for help. What they couldn't do was explain to me what they had done to accompish such a feat.

As Windows was probably installed on C it probably didn't do any real damage, did it?

If I remember correctly, that was before Windows started protecting boot volume.

Re: Ooops.

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Post by crikli »

The reason we all know to be careful with rm -r is because of that one time we weren't.

Me, it was the time I rm r'ed the MySQL data directory for my company's customer service management system. Oops. Thankfully we had a backup from the month prior, but I learned two things that day: a) be really careful with rm and b) take it on yourself to make sure IT is backing up stuff that you're messing with.

You gotta hedge against your own stupid.

What about you, how'd you learn the hard way?

Re: Ooops.

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Post by crikli »

cruise02 wrote: post #45
shrikant wrote: post #44

Perhaps because I'm not a GitHub user, and because I've only ever peeked at HNers' GitHub accounts, but I was always under the impression that given the nature of the service, it would have an early-days-of-HN feel wrt to user behaviour. It was a little disheartening to see the number of Reddit-esque comments that are simply a couple of words along the lines of "omfg" and a constant stream of meme abuse. I expected b…

No, that was exactly my impression as well. Those comments remind me more of the Daily WTF where everyone points and laughs, but people rarely step forward to explain exactly what the problem is, and more importantly the solution.

I laugh at Daily WTF but I always cringe thinking about some of those its3AMgottalaunchat8AMshitI'msotired nasty kludgy hacks I've been responsible for.

Or just the times I was well rested, under no pressure, and just coughed up some stupid.

Re: Ooops.

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Post by nl »

crikli wrote: post #65

The reason we all know to be careful with rm -r is because of that one time we weren't. Me, it was the time I rm r'ed the MySQL data directory for my company's customer service management system. Oops. Thankfully we had a backup from the month prior, but I learned two things that day: a) be really careful with rm and b) take it on yourself to make sure IT is backing up stuff that you're messing with. You gotta hedge…

In a script:

  sudo chown -R username:group $WEBAPP
For various reasons, $WEBAPP got set to "/ usr/local/blah/blah" (note the space)

I had the Linode backup service, so got away with restoring the whole VM from the previous night's backup.

Re: Ooops.

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Post by srl »

bradly wrote: post #32

Here is the original bug report. https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/123 I've never heard of BumbleBee, but it must be great if a user can have their machine wiped out and still thank the library author for their work.

It is great. Quality linux support for nvidia optimus cards is pretty important for a lot of people I know, and bumblebee appears to provide it. (Apparently, optimus cards act /really/ strangely without a proper driver.)
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