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Jesus. One would think you'd have some safeguards for that. Even Dropbox will give you an alert if you try to nuke over 1,000 files. More reasons to COLOR CODE your work environments, if possible.


Yes but that was eons ago. The safeguards are well and truly in-place now. Not just one, several in fact.


Apart from the ones that they haven't worked out yet :)


When I meet the engineer who can design for the unknown unknowns, I will bow to them.


The trick is to be paranoid. You literally sit down and think exclusively about what COULD go wrong.


Anxiety is a bitch.


Formal methods for your formal methods. And never shipping on Friday.


colorblind (red/green) person here - 5% of the male population just don't see color enough for it to be an important visual clue.

So sure, color-code your environments, but if you find someone about to do something to a red environment that they clearly should only be doing to a green environment, just check if they're seeing what you're seeing before you sack them ;)


My primary customer right now color codes both with "actual color", and with words - ie the RED environment is tagged with red color bars, and also big [black] letters in the [red] bars reading "RED"




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