I was messing with a (dumb) co worker. I told him that βrm -rF /β would fix all issues in his code. As a joke I added it at to the top of the loader for our web app... I accidentally pushed it to a production server. Long story short I lost my job and had to rewrite everything.
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Thank you for trying to credit me, a few issues there haha. I was the primary reviewer, I had worked on everything so long that no one really bothered reviewing my code. We had two git repos, one development & one production. I pushed the commit to the production repo instead of the development one haha.
"there's this really cool Gameboy cheat code for Tetris, if you press 'Select, Start, B, and A' all at the same time" is a really cool/cruel joke kids of the early 90s would tell each other ...
more related to your benign example (and even more benign): when i was first really tinkering with Linux back in like 2001/2002, i couldn't figure out how to get out of this program i was using (you'd think it would be Vi, but it was probably just a Man page) and a co-worker suggested Alt-F4-- while that did technically get me unstuck from my issue, it took me another day or so to figure out what i'd actually done
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I was messing with a (dumb) co worker. I told him that βrm -rF /β would fix all issues in his code. As a joke I added it at to the top of the loader for our web app... I accidentally pushed it to a production server. Long story short I lost my job and had to rewrite everything.
Damn, this is hardcore
Epic. I love it.
Are you being serious? That is remarkable.
Iβm dead serious.
that's the Chicago Fire method of fixing things-- burn it all down, and start over
I think you win this round or "who's made the biggest mistake"
Oh man... My heart really sunk for you...
It did fix all code issues though :)
To your credit you identified a number of workflow issues doing that:
I hope you've got a job somewhere more thoughtful now :)
Thank you for trying to credit me, a few issues there haha. I was the primary reviewer, I had worked on everything so long that no one really bothered reviewing my code. We had two git repos, one development & one production. I pushed the commit to the production repo instead of the development one haha.
Yikes! This is exactly why we tell people not to make light of death commands. :P You make that mistake once, and never again!
Such a benign version, but I still remember how super upset I was as a kid and someone told me alt+f4 would refresh the page or something.
"there's this really cool Gameboy cheat code for Tetris, if you press 'Select, Start, B, and A' all at the same time" is a really cool/cruel joke kids of the early 90s would tell each other ...
more related to your benign example (and even more benign): when i was first really tinkering with Linux back in like 2001/2002, i couldn't figure out how to get out of this program i was using (you'd think it would be Vi, but it was probably just a Man page) and a co-worker suggested Alt-F4-- while that did technically get me unstuck from my issue, it took me another day or so to figure out what i'd actually done
Let me guess - erases scores?
it reboots the device!
On IRC it'd be "use /quit bugging me " to ignore someone.
I once ran
rm -rf /in a virtual machine just for fun to see what it would happen.The VM had some shared disks with my actual OS and it started deleting everything that I had on my desktop and some other important folders.
I was long due for a backup so I ended up losing a crap ton of data, but now I will never forget to check for shared disks when i'm working in a VM.