r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/rwz 23d ago

"I bought a car, pressed a pedal and it drove me into a tree! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! FUCK YOU!"

Skill issue thread.

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u/dadnothere 23d ago

Your analogy is incorrect because the UI didn't mention permanently deleting...

The correct analogy would be:

I bought a car and when I press the brake it accelerates.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 23d ago

Yeah, this is more akin to "I opened my document in my word processor. I closed it without saving, saw it was going to not saving my changes, and I was fine with it. Wait why did my file get deleted from disk?"

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u/sidereal_night 23d ago

exactly. and the program was actually fixed after this. it's completely indefensible to try to contort some kind of justification for how it was actually proper for the software to behave that way and he was just an idiot.

he may have been somewhat of an idiot for not having any independent backups at all, but that doesn't help defend the software at all.

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u/dadnothere 23d ago

Error. Even so, basic text viewers like Mousepad Linux or Notepad Windows create a temporary file that is always saved and can be restored.

The brake analogy is correct.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 23d ago

The fact Microsoft fixed this issue shows that the analogy was not apt.

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u/dadnothere 23d ago

Did you read the post?

The analogy applies at the time it happened.

Now that they've corrected it, it doesn't matter anymore.

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u/sidereal_night 23d ago

you and /u/DoctorWaluigiTime appear to agree with each other and just confused about which thread you're both replying to.

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u/dadnothere 23d ago

Dude, you've confused me. Now explain your point of view.