Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!david From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes Message-ID: <4945@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:19:50 EST Article-I.D.: elroy.4945 Posted: Tue Dec 1 12:19:50 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 06:56:02 EST References: <1721@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <1621@megatest.UUCP> <101@ateng.UUCP> <2975@umix.cc.umich.edu> Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL Lines: 30 In article <2975@umix.cc.umich.edu>, paul@umix.cc.umich.edu ('da Kingfish) writes: < For < example, three people were working on a software project under my < direction. One rm-ed an entire directory of source, and stammered < something about rm star, spaces, backslashes, and something else. He < was sweating profusely, and had something to say about the < inappropriate user interface that /bin/csh had, etc. < Well, this has probably happened to some of you, and it's always "well, < we lost a day's worth of work, but we had really good backups, etc." < Well, we hadn't done backups in about two months. < So, I fired him. Mistake, you should have fired the person who did not have the brains to do more frequent backups if you had such critical code! That wasn't your decision was it? ;-) -- David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov ARPA {cit-vax,ames}!elroy!david UUCP Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!