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The most important thing is to be true to the material and to make the code easy to understand and maintain.

We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don’t check in code anymore.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.