[veyron]

A lie is a lie is a lie, in context, means that a small lie (i.e. claiming to know bash even though you never used any of the nontrivial features of bash) is not acceptable.

When you start hiring people, you will quickly realize how many people claim expertise, or even awareness, of languages / systems that they dont know about. e.g. everyone who has used awk '{print $1}' claims to be an awk expert. And its kinda sad that people see such small things as acceptable.