Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.
If your reaction to someone telling you to slow down because you’re being reckless by not confirming what you type on the CLI before pressing enter is to smash your keyboard, you should be fired
And in that case, sl has done its job of removing reckless people from dangerously powerful positions
Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.
“Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars” Boss: “The wat?”
In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!
I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.
The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.
If you typed
sland actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you gotA smashed keyboard? How will provoking a hulk incident fix anything?
If your reaction to someone telling you to slow down because you’re being reckless by not confirming what you type on the CLI before pressing enter is to smash your keyboard, you should be fired
And in that case, sl has done its job of removing reckless people from dangerously powerful positions
Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!
Oof. Were they found and removed from the org?
Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.
Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.