[larrys]

"all that experience and confidence will lull you into a false sense of safety"

I've noticed that that happens with many different things in a similar way.

You get confident, you slip up, you work faster, you make mistakes.

When you start out boating (with a new boat) you are oh so very careful.

Then you gain confidence and you start to take more chances. All the sudden things that you could never imagine yourself doing when you start you do. An example might be getting caught in an inlet with a boat during a period when larger boats are all trying to go in or out at the same time and you are tossed left and right.

Programming as well. Say doing a rm -fr foo * in stead of rm -fr foo* and not catching it because you hit return to fast instead of making sure the statement was correct. [1]

[1] I got into the habit of doing for i in foo* ; echo $i ; done and then inserting the rm -fr statement (by using uparrow) just as a precaution to slow me down.

[jacquesm]

> I got into the habit of doing for i in foo* ; echo $i ; done and then inserting the rm -fr statement (by using uparrow) just as a precaution to slow me down.

I do the exact same thing only I use 'ls foo*' first, and when doing bulk updates / deletes with sql servers I again first do a select and then modify the select once I'm sure it will hit the right rows.