Count to ten when a plane goes down • Hacker News Board

Re: Count to ten when a plane goes down

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Post by iopq » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 5:24 AM UTC

jzwinck wrote: post #79

australis wrote: post #68

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There's also the chance of it happening when writing a script Such as this classic: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

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…

I once installed GGClient in C:/Program Files/ instead of any particular folder

so of course, I said "I'll just uninstall it from there and install it in the correct folder" and it proceeded to delete C:/Program Files/

Re: Count to ten when a plane goes down

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Post by mreiland » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

claudius wrote: post #166

mreiland wrote: post #162

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rm -rf / is not quite the same as the f7 key restarting all machines sitting right next to the f6 key to restart a single machine. you cannot fat finger rm -rf /

# rm -rf /tmp/bla # rm -rf / tmp/bla

no

Re: Count to ten when a plane goes down

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Post by mreiland » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

astrodust wrote: post #168

mreiland wrote: post #162

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rm -rf / is not quite the same as the f7 key restarting all machines sitting right next to the f6 key to restart a single machine. you cannot fat finger rm -rf /

You can fat-finger enter before you're done typing.

that's a pretty fat fucking finger...

Re: Count to ten when a plane goes down

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Post by 72deluxe » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:27 PM UTC

72deluxe wrote: post #173

maaku wrote: post #171

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That's a very narrow minded position. Gosh I hope you never screw up even once, cause you'll never live it down.

Would you say that making a mistake in software is equal to taking a human life?

Not sure why the downvotes, but I think for the application software that probably 98% of us here write, it isn't as important as we'd like to believe in comparison to a person's life.

Either that or life is really really cheap.