[jimbokun]

Well HN was created as a forum for discussing start up best practices, which is all about disrupting big companies weighed down by internal politics.

[awesome_dude]

The linked article is about dealing with legacy codebases with millions of lines of code.

The response is accurate - anyone that's had to deal with a legacy code base has had to deal with the creators of said birds nest (who proudly strut around as though the trouble it causes to maintainability makes them "clever").