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jdavid on March 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?

As an ex-MySpace ID MDP employee we had staging servers. There were like 2 or 3 different levels of test, of course, that might have been unique to our team.

kragen on March 26, 2011 [–]

Did you have version control? That's the most damning accusation to me.

ms_bitshifter on April 1, 2011 | [–]

I don't even get where that accusation is coming from? Everything was versioned prior to building out, rather than allowing devs to drop dll's wherever they felt like it. Sure the local dev environment wasn't the best...

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