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The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge mistake

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Re: The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge mistake

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. It doesn't make any sense that anyone would put a junior on his first day even close to a production environment, much less using a tool that can delete a database that btw you can't restore from a backup. IMO this is either a false story, or this was done on purpose. What if the company wanted to get rid of some data that would put the company in a difficult position in fro…

I wish more comments would approach this from the angle of "if this is true..." because it seems pretty far out there honestly. It's like that `rm -rf` story from a few months back where someone claimed on a Stack Exchange site, that they erased all their company data and backups.

Re: The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge mistake

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Fun story! A long time ago I interned for a very large catalog company. It was my first real internship in IT. One of the first things (so a couple days in, not exactly day one) the CTO had me do was "map" their server room (e.g. figure out where data and power cables were going to and coming from, physically and virtually). While working my way through the back of a massive UPS rack, I stepped on one power cord that…

Sounds like a cable fail: https://www.reddit.com/r/cablefail/
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