Doh. Dude 'rm-rf'ed his company

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vetran replied

15 April 2016, 10:45
Originally posted by moggy View Post

wasn't this the same with the "half day off to watch game of thrones"? Saw that on Linkedin a few days ago, thought it was a hoax and then saw it reported in the paper today..

unfortunately its what was predicted when they started improving journalism stories wouldn't be properly researched, there was an article about a Daily Mail stringer who uncovered most of the tricks i.e. do X stories an hour, rip off other sources however unreliable etc.

it appears the quality papers have started doing it now.
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moggy replied

15 April 2016, 10:38
wasn't this the same with the "half day off to watch game of thrones"? Saw that on Linkedin a few days ago, thought it was a hoax and then saw it reported in the paper today..
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tomtomagain replied

15 April 2016, 10:35
Originally posted by vetran View Post

probably but its a great hoax all the newspapers are covering including the 'quality papers'.

I find it highly depressing.

Reading something of an internet forum and then printing it as fact. Surely there are some journalists out there with some standards?

No wonder their industry is fecked.

What next? A double page spread about one man's struggle to buy a sofa?
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vetran replied

15 April 2016, 10:10
Originally posted by tomtomagain View Post

Don't you all think that this "story" was completely made up?

What as the name of this hosting company he ran and supposedly nuked in a single line of "code" ( or script as it is more accurately called ).

Where are the angry clients demanding compensation.

probably but its a great hoax all the newspapers are covering including the 'quality papers'.
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tomtomagain replied

15 April 2016, 10:07
Don't you all think that this "story" was completely made up?

What as the name of this hosting company he ran and supposedly nuked in a single line of "code" ( or script as it is more accurately called ).

Where are the angry clients demanding compensation.
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FatLazyContractor replied

15 April 2016, 09:19
Originally posted by SunnyInHades View Post

"Marco Marsala has accidentally deleted his entire company with one bad piece of code.
accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf
proceeded to remove everything, including all of the mounted back-up drives
sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead
"

A man accidentally 'deleted his entire company' with one line of code | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express

Good morning Lad !
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LondonManc replied

15 April 2016, 09:18
KUATB:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-bad-code.html

I thought someone had deleted an entire thread.
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SunnyInHades started a topic Doh. Dude 'rm-rf'ed his company

15 April 2016, 09:16
Doh. Dude 'rm-rf'ed his company

"Marco Marsala has accidentally deleted his entire company with one bad piece of code.
accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf
proceeded to remove everything, including all of the mounted back-up drives
sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead
"

A man accidentally 'deleted his entire company' with one line of code | Tech | Life & Style | Daily Express
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