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Making claims based on unreliable second-hand info, as a CEO, is almost as bad as lying IMO.
by soared 9y ago
Making claims based on unreliable second-hand info, as a CEO, is almost as bad as lying IMO.
- j_s 9y agoCloudbleed (most specifically what I will call the marketing side of the response) reflects poorly on the tech people at CloudFlare, for sure. It's unusual to see someone accused of blatantly lying on HN and I put my alternative interpretation out there to hopefuly temper that opinion a bit. As you mentioned, the end result is pretty much equivalent since all we have is the completely wrong output.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoHe might not have known it was second-hand info, or could have been led to believe it was good info from a good source (we'd need the message that led him to believe that thing -- and publicly throwing a subordinate under the bus for giving you bad info will obviously not go well). I would differentiate that from lying, and fairly, he gets to deal with the consequences either way because he is the CEO.