On 2008-12-30, at 18:28, Michael G Schwern wrote:
This is the "are you sure?" anti-pattern, where the computer second guessesevery potentially irreversible command issued by the user.
The fix, as you note, is to minimize the potentially irreversible actions. For example, instead of automatically opening files you download, then asking people if they really want to, just download them and make it convenient for them to, at their leisure, open them. But that's another hate.
