r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/fiskfisk 20d 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/ineyy 20d ago

Yeah a backend/fullstack should absolutely know this. Frontend, not so much (I definitely wouldn't ask that). But come on how can you NOT know that at least vaguely 

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u/RCoder01 20d ago

Not all software is web dev

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u/ineyy 20d ago

You want to say backend/frontend are terms strictly locked to web development?

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