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"If you're a hacker and more than 5% of what you type goes anywhere other than your code repository, you should probably reevaluate what you're doing before you make it any easier to do it."

I'm a hacker but I'm also a blogger, marketer, entrepreneur and many other things. And I am sure many other users here also are. The idea that you should only write code all the time is flawed, at best.

And hard drives crash. And other backups also can get lost.

But I agree one shouldn't worry much about online data being lost. And for any data you really care about, have some backups, yes.




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