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It flies in the face of a mantra at HN: Fail early and often. It goes against the idea that you learn by making mistakes. When you're a young, tiny startup, yo
by jfager 17y ago
It flies in the face of a mantra at HN: Fail early and often. It goes against the idea that you learn by making mistakes.
When you're a young, tiny startup, you can fail early and often because the costs of doing so are outweighed by the benefit of the education you get, both to yourself and to society at large.
This is Google. It's huge, it's been around the block a few times, it's already had a ton of failures, and millions of people rely on it. It can't and shouldn't have the same latitude to fail, especially in an area as important as privacy.
- jamesbritt 17y ago"This is Google. It's huge, it's been around the block a few times, it's already had a ton of failures, and millions of people rely on it. It can't and shouldn't have the same latitude to fail, especially in an area as important as privacy." All the more reason to consider what is the best course to prevent similar mistakes in the future. Knee-jerk firings may make things worse.
- jfager 17y ago"Don't worry boss, the next time I have to make a call about whether or not I'll require millions of users to opt out of sharing some of their most private personal information with the entire world, I'll know just what to do." Some lessons don't need to be learned from experience, and some screw ups are bad enough that they should result in real consequences.