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I drove down to the Zone of Totality to watch and someone there decided to blast that song twice in an hour. Fortunately they were polite enough to not do so during the actual event.
Also, is it just me or does the "Zone of Totality" sounds like some comic book super villain's domain?
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RJOberg wrote: "Zone of Totality" sounds like some comic book super villain's domain?
Yep.
When I read it, I read with the narrator's deep thunderous voice "ZONE...OF....TOTALLLLIIITY", or something like that. 
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Slacker007 wrote: I read with the narrator's deep thunderous voice "ZONE...OF....TOTALLLLIIITY", or something like that.
By any chance was it James Earl Jones or Christopher Lee? Because that's who I heard. 
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My bet is he did nothing for 3 months and used this bs to cover that up.
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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Always nice to find someone to blame. My "experience" tells me for at least 90% I'm the Problem.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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The idiot. If he has 5,000 files and doesn't back them up regularly, then I have little sympathy. Hard drives fail - it's not a case of "if" but "when". Backup, and regularly. Swearing blaming others for your stupidity doesn't make you right...
Mind you, I've had that sinking feeling. That "oh gawd, no ... I didn't. Yes, I did." moment. That's why I backup! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wow. All my stuff exists in four places beside the repository. I might lose a few hours of work at most since backups are through batch files and are done two or three times per day.
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I wonder which part of "Discard" was unclear to him.
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Probably the part where it deletes the files, instead of unstaging them. Wouldn't have been clear to me at all.
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There is a warning message, but it's so easy to just click Enter and nuke them. The cancel should be the default button on that dialog, IMO.
TTFN - Kent
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Slashdot had a better article. My understanding was that he had files checked out for over 3 months, and he basically did an Undo Pending Changes.
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OK that makes it sound a lot different. Do you have a link to that article?
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I can't find the article I had originally read anymore, just the Slashdot post itself (here). If you read through some of the discussion, plenty of people are saying that's exactly what happened. Not quite sure at this point what their source is.
Regardless--if such a nasty bug actually existed, I'd have to think that by now it would've been long found and fixed. So I have to believe the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair.
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Maybe he expected a magic trick?
"Take any card!"
"Discard."
Well, magic happened.
Everything went poof and disappeared!
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I saw this a couple of days ago on What The Daily WTF, and the general consensus there is that he is a moron for his actions, but the dialog itself was very misleading.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Never trust anything from Microsoft.
This comment really annoys me:
Quote: “Why you have three months of work not under source control is the bigger question.”
I'd bet the developer worked at microsoft next to the dumba$$ director who was receiving explicit feedback on Window 10s auto reboot policy.
Should he have had a backup? Sure. He clearly is not sufficiently paranoid. He is now. But to delete files, data, etc without any mechanism of retrieval? That's just kindergarten code. When my code deletes things, it just renames stuff and moves it elsewhere, because I don't trust users.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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"seeing how it wanted to stage five thousand files I clicked discard…"
Since I don't fully trust me doing the right thing with source control, especially git or anything that says "discard", I 7-zip my stuff before doing any merge, rebase or large commit. And then copy the file to OneDrive or, if at work, an engineering drive that's backed up daily.
That said, I found Visual Studio Code very clunky and had it do enough truly weird things to test (note "test") projects that I uninstalled it.
Incidentally, I once deleted a backup by confusing which side of Beyond Compare was the source and which was the destination.
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You know in World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs when some kids want to name their character after some special hero and the name is taken and he is too stupid to think of another name, and just puts some xx around the name?
Well, today I have read the new Microsoft console name is Xbox One X.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Stll better than XBoxOne199x.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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"One X"???
- we all know ms love numbers (even if they can't count vey well)
so is "One X" like "1 10", "110", "10" (1 * 10), or "9" (1 = roman nummeral I => IX)?
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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It's not too stupid.. X Box One X
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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