Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

  • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Subversion has existed probably for longer than your company, the fucking managers couldn’t be arsed to read a damn book?

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      2 months ago

      They were using SourceSafe back then. But any source control that isnt decentralised has the same problem. If the central server gets deleted so does all history

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      I had a worse experience. My first internship was doing web development in ColdFusion. Why that language? Because when the company was first starting, none of the funders wanted to learn Linux/Apache administration and CF ran on Windows.

      Also, the front end development team did not have version control but shared code via a file server.