Funny thing is that, especially early, Facebook didn't require particularly good programming skills. But it did have a much better and more professional, less s

Funny thing is that, especially early, Facebook didn't require particularly good programming skills. But it did have a much better and more professional, less sleazy (MySpace) or nerdy (LiveJournal) -looking UI than it's competitors/progenitors did. And then grew in a very intelligent and calculated away (Harvard first, then other Ivy League, then other colleges, etc.; and refusing to commercialize the experience too early). All of that really had nothing to do with the quality of the code or the main coder behind it (Zuck). Quality of the designer (arguably, especially early on: Zuck) and strategic direction (Zuck again?), but not of the hacking.