I once lost two weeks of work with an "rm -rf" typo. No backups, just gone. It was the 80s, and I had been careless. Took me about a day and a half to re-creat

I once lost two weeks of work with an "rm -rf" typo. No backups, just gone. It was the 80s, and I had been careless. Took me about a day and a half to re-create the work, and it was /better/. I'm not saying it's a good thing to lose work this way. But it's seldom utterly catastrophic. (Exceptions like "the SourceSafe database and build machine start pushing up daisies the night before Final" . . . well, for one thing: Don't use SourceSafe, and for Pete's sake, make sure your backups actually work).