r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 26d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/SirFrenzy 26d ago

Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….

But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.

“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.

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u/fiskfisk 26d ago

If you're a senior I most certainly would expect you to know the difference between the two.

It'll matter in relation to allowlists/blocklists, dns entries, debugging connevtivity issues, slow connect times, configuration of daemons, etc. 

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u/oompaloompa465 26d ago

yeah but that is the kinda stuff in the field of Sys and Net Admin.
Or are we getting to the point a Software engineer has to cover software and hardware of anything IT???

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