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You're talking to the guy that wiped the user table of a production database for an online game he was working on: http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/how-i-fired-m
by darkarmani 14y ago
You're talking to the guy that wiped the user table of a production database for an online game he was working on: http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/how-i-fired-myself http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/how-i-fired-myself.
The meat of the story starts with this sentence:
> One of the peculiarities of my development environment was that I ran all my code against the production database....
- sbov 14y agoWhat's your point? That he worked at a company whose standard practice was to have developers run code in development against the production database? Without backups. Of course something is going to go wrong. IIRC this was already discussed on HN.
- jasonlotito 14y ago> That he worked at a company whose standard practice was to have developers run code in development against the production database? His point is probably that professionals don't do that. It's not the companies fault he was working directly on the production database.