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On 01/02/2012 03:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:55:19 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> New behavior: user error permanently breaks your world file. |
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> It is not permanently broken, that implies it would stop the system |
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> working. It is merely damaged, and repairable. It may take a little |
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> effort to repair, but that will help you remember to be more careful in |
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> future. |
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No one has offered up a way to fix it yet, or a downside to the old |
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behavior. |
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Making your software punish its users isn't going to make them more |
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careful, it's going to make them stop using your software. If bash did |
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an 'rm -rf /' when you mistyped a command[1], would you think, gee, I |
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need to be more careful? Or would you think the guy who made it do that |
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was an asshole? |
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[1] There is distro that does this, even though it's an extreme example. |
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