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The week I learned the hard way about not backing up my code
About two weeks ago, my laptop just died while I was working on a small project, a simple weather app. I hadn't saved my work to GitHub or even an external drive for over three days. In my experience, that meant I lost all the progress on my main function. I had to start that part from scratch, which set me back a solid eight hours. Has anyone else had a close call like this that finally got them to use version control?
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the_xena6mo ago
Oh man, that sinking feeling is the worst, totally been there.
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rileym966mo ago
Backing up is a waste of time for most people. The_xena, that sinking feeling is just panic, not a sign you did something wrong. Drives are super reliable now. How many people actually lose their vacation photos or tax documents? Almost nobody. It's fear-mongering. Spending money on cloud storage or extra drives for a tiny chance of disaster is silly. Just use the computer and stop worrying.
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danielw126mo ago
Ugh, my hard drive crashed once and I learned that lesson the expensive way. Honestly felt like a total clown for not backing up anything.
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