Count to ten when a plane goes down

Post by anon4 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 1:07 PM UTC

couchand wrote: post #196

daurnimator wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not really, a lot of novice unix users are of the habit of removing files with -rf switch. I cringe everytime I see it. Every few days I remind myself of this.... then I have to delete another directory with a git repository in it, and end up add the -f in again

I run into this all the time, too. Now my -rf usage is almost always wrapped by this: rmgit() { git status read -p "Are you sure? " -n 1 -r echo if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]] then rm .git -rf fi }

    rmrf()
    {
        (echo "The following files are going to be deleted!!!"
         for FILE in "$@"; do
             echo ">>"
         done) | less
        read -p "Are you sure? " -n 1 -r
        echo
        if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
        then
            rm -rf "$@"
        fi
    }

Post by noisy_boy » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

coldpie wrote: post #189

vacri wrote: post #45

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That button needs a safeguard even if it's not an international incident. Even if only one person would lose a few hours' work from an all-nighter, work for something that's not so important, it's still someone's work. And given that it's right next to a 'single terminal reset' key, it should be immediately obvious to anyone who's ever used a keyboard - mistakes can and do happen, even when you're fluent.

And yet, to this day, Firefox has both Ctrl-Q (close all Firefox windows without prompting) and its neighbor Ctrl-W (close current tab) and refuses to change that or provide remappable keyboard shortcuts. One of the biggest UI failures I'm aware of in 2014. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821

Post by rrss1122 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

mikegreco wrote: post #4

The author states they felt it was appropriate when they were fired. In what world would it be appropriate to get fired for a single, simple, incredibly easy to make mistake? Doubly insane when there were exactly zero safeguards in place to prevent the mistake from being made.

Post by hack_37 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 1:46 PM UTC

hrjet wrote: post #200

coldpie wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet, to this day, Firefox has both Ctrl-Q (close all Firefox windows without prompting) and its neighbor Ctrl-W (close current tab) and refuses to change that or provide remappable keyboard shortcuts. One of the biggest UI failures I'm aware of in 2014. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821

This in combination with "Restore all tabs on startup" not being the default is a disaster. The first thing I do on a new Firefox installation is enable "Restore all tabs on startup".

Post by Paradigma11 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 1:59 PM UTC

bentcorner wrote: post #148

jzwinck wrote: post #79

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Ten years prior to that, Apple had a similar bug in one of its installer scripts on OS X. I have a hard time finding much about it online now, because it happened at a time when OS X and the Internet were a lot less popular than today, but what I recall is that an unexpectedly customized installation directory (say with spaces or one level closer to "/" than the default) would cause the installer to delete a whole lo…

There's also this one from Pool of Radiance's 2001 release: http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2001/1416.html Uninstall wipes out your Windows directory.