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I'm struggling to feel sympathy here: a) He owns a top-of-the-line phone, yet complains about being poor. b) He owns a phone that makes it trivially easy main
by tsm 13y ago
I'm struggling to feel sympathy here:
a) He owns a top-of-the-line phone, yet complains about being poor.
b) He owns a phone that makes it trivially easy maintain backups in the cloud, and yet didn't think that his livelihood was worth backing up.
c) There's no real point to this post, yet it was published and submitted to HN.
d) He attempts to egocentrically link this post to his own humility.
Nobody deserves to have their property stolen, and it sounds like Peacock is in a particularly tight bind, but this is hardly enlightening journalism or something "that good hackers would find interesting".
- venus 13y ago> didn't think that his livelihood was worth backing up Came here to make this exact point. Not to kick someone who's already down, but for god's sake people: If you do not do backups, your data is ephemeral. There's only so many times one can hear sob stories about people losing all their un-backed-up data, especially from people who should know better, before one stops feeling all that sorry. Don't complain to me if you roll the dice and lose.
- Wingman4l7 13y agoI just flat out don't understand it -- I back up stuff a lot less important than things that provide me income. How hard is it to attach a copy to an email draft when you're done?
- neotek 13y agoJust to be clear, I posted this link to HN, but I didn't write the blog post. Nothing to do with me at all other than the fact I found it interesting. I can understand why you might not have found it interesting, but I did, and that's why I posted it.