[hnmonkey]

Your statement doesn't match up at all with what they said nor even make sense. What's the point of a business if you only have a test environment but rarely have a production environment?

You seem to be assuming to know what their development process and infrastructure is like.

[nevon]

The joke is that if you don't have a testing environment, production is your testing environment, which in effect means that you don't have a production environment.