I've had my share of cowboy-style recklessness with hard drive partitions. That's always calming in a strange way because it forced me to clean out those files that I was sure I could find a use for eventually.
A more recent mistake involves building websites for family members without a clear contract. I find myself spending more time adding features and doing tech support than I hoped for, and if I calculate the amount of time I spent and compare it to the money I'll make... well let's just say I was making more as an assistant manager at a pet store.
I like to think that my comment is when the Techcrunch comments jumped the shark.
But I think they got funding. Maybe it's a different group.
Honestly, the closest thing I've seen to an interface that is what I wanted is the custom desktop environment on the EeePC. But it would need to be made rocksolid on a much bigger monitor for the market I intended.
My YC app was after YouOS was funded. If I was the CEO of YouOS, I would use their tech to make a product for the older computer user market. But I'm not the CEO of YouOS. The round I was rejected from was the one Blake Ross was admitted to for an idea similar to mine with a much more impressive sounding client/server technology. I don't think that helped my odds either.
chown someuser .*
I thought I was changing owner of a hidden file .htaccess but of course .* also means everyting under root folder :)