Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by enriquto on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:55PM (#23304323)

> if no alarm bells went off internally when they were discussing this feature, they are not the group of people to entrust with information such as this.

On the other hand, once shit hit the fan, you could argue that these people would be extra-careful about fucking it up again, as opposed to another company where everything seems silently OK.

It's a bit like the story of the engineer who did a 400.000 dollar mistake on his first job. Asking the manager if they were going to fire him, he was told that no way they were going to fire somebody that just cost them so much money to train!

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by smt88 on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:13PM (#23304481)

> On the other hand, once shit hit the fan, you could argue that these people would be extra-careful about fucking it up again

In my experience with Facebook, Google, and a variety of smaller companies, this doesn't happen.

To people who think the way TripleByte apparently does, the fuck-up was getting caught, not violating trust in the first place. If they had no moral issues with betraying users, they won't have any in the future (unless executives and board are replaced).

Instead, they will pay more lip service to privacy concerns and be more secretive about violating user trust.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by spinachman on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:22PM (#23305924)

So Go Daddy after the first "We're sorry..."?

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by travisjungroth on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:08PM (#23304427)

I also read a story on HN where a devops engineer made a $80k mistake and got fired. He got hired at a new startup and the founder thought "of course he won't make the same mistake twice". He did.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by gavinray on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:18PM (#23304520)

Anyyyy chance you happen to have that link handy? Terrible misfortune but sounds like a good read.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by travisjungroth on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:35PM (#23304682)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719573

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by BurningFrog on Monday May 25, 2020 @04:20PM (#23304539)

At least we can be sure lightning won't strike thrice!

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by bobrobinson960 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:02AM (#23307885)

I wouldn't count my blessings!

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by rplst8 on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:03PM (#23306155)

> It's a bit like the story of the engineer who did a 400.000 dollar mistake on his first job.

The primary reason not to fire this person is that if something like this can happen, it's a process failure.

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