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I read a post on Reddit's legal advice subreddit of a data scientist having their apartment robbed, and part of it was saying they'd lost all their code and cur
by mynameisvlad 5y ago
I read a post on Reddit's legal advice subreddit of a data scientist having their apartment robbed, and part of it was saying they'd lost all their code and currently working on projects.
As horrible as the robbery was, I was screaming inside "WHAT ABOUT VERSION CONTROL?!??!"
- 999900000999 5y agoThat’s a really sad story. If he doesn’t come from a programming background version can seem foreign. But like ya know… Dropbox. I’d be more concerned with my hard drive corrupting than anything else
- alpaca128 5y agoThe worst story I read was of someone working on his PhD thesis for 2 years, and then he forgot his laptop in a bus and everything was gone because in 2 years he didn't store the files anywhere else. I personally met a teacher who stored the only copy of her students' final exam submissions on her everyday thumb drive without backup. For many people technology really is magic.