The only good thing about really dumb mistakes is that they generally cause you to focus on the things you need to improve by pinpointing the errors in the way you work or think. Anything that you can do that helps you to deliberately pay attention to the kind of errors that you make from time to time is a good thing – both on the command line and in your personal and professional life.

As for really dumb things, we have this little tidbit of recent news. Did the DNC really email passwords in plain text after discovering that they’d been hacked? Looks like the answer might just be “yes.”

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