svckr 2 hours ago | link [dead]

Reminds me of the "most stupid thing" I ever typed into Terminal.app. I somehow managed to create a subdirectory named "~", and decided it was a good idea to do this:

    rm -rf ~

It took me about 5 seconds to realize the command should have returned immediately, and frantically press Ctrl-c. But that was all that was needed to ruin two week worth of code.

If you want to try a fun little experiment, type this command into your colleague's shell and see what happens (and how long it takes):

    mkdir ./~