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Hard lessons2016-04-15 · Archive

Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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“Obviously having actual backups and testing your code before applying it to production is good practice but I feel like doing system administration with root …”

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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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