[ForHackernews]

> Facebook creates tech to mitigate the pathologies their past continuously present.

Remember when they hacked a running Android Dalvik machine because their organizational constraints were such that they could never remove code or delete unused classes?

https://archive.is/nIPlg

https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood...

Facebook seems like a place where they do amazing engineering to temporarily stave off the disastrous consequences of their previous feat of amazing engineering.

[kridsdale1]

Basically yeah. You should see the FB iOS code base. Yikes. And I have seen Apple code bases that literally go back to the 80s.