On Oct 4, 10:05 pm, hjr.pyth..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 5, 12:40 pm, "Palooka" <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> > "Andrea"
>
> > > thanks for links!
>
> > Call me old fashioned by all means, but I cannot see the purpose of this
> > recyclebin. If I drop an object, it is because it is neither wanted nor
> > needed any more. Nowadays to keep things clean I must purge recyclebin as
> > well. Seems pointless to me.
>
> > Palooka
>
> Then you are remarkable in being the only human being on the planet
> who never makes a mistake.
>
> For myself, having once dropped the most important 20GB+ table in a
> production database because I thought -no, knew, with absolute
> certainty, and 100% error- I was in the development database, I know
> from bitter personal experience that the recyclebin gives that 'are
> you sure?' moment that a lot of real human beings will find useful.
Kind of reminds me of what a professor of mine once said. (My degree
is in Music Education, and this was in a music composition course).
"The scariest thing in the world is a piece of blank manuscript
paper. Anyone who approaches it with a pen instead of a pencil is
displaying supreme arrogance."
Received on Fri Oct 05 2007 - 07:48:02 CDT
