Even someone mastering GUI keyboard shortcuts isn't going to be able to match, because my terminal is optimized beyond what is possible in a more graphical app.

What I'm trying to say is that no one can introduce a thoughtless mistake into production code as quickly as I can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The real metric is dollars per second of destroyed hardware ;)

I once watched an engineer blow up a $200k prototype with a terminal alias.

[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 1 month ago

That's impressive. I'm glad I don't have any story to match that. Hopefully they find it hilarious now. Probably no fun at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I once watched an engineer blow up a $200k prototype with a terminal alias.

I once worked with someone who accidentally deleted our company's entire Git server. We had backups thankfully, but they were nearly a week old.

Thank the gods for git being distributed, so the vast majority of the work from the last week was recoverable because it was on someone's machine locally.