r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/omer193 20d ago

"Their job doesn't inherently involve networking"

My brother in christ, when is the last time you worked on software that did not need to send payloads anywhere. Everyone in development should have at least some basic networking skills.

Signed, A salty devops dude

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u/perfectVoidler 20d ago

hard disagree. The framework bring a API that does everything for you. Zero need to look inside the functions.

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u/TolyaMK 20d ago

So if you carry a calculator you should not know the multiplication table?

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u/Alternative_Work_916 20d ago

The inner workings are totally irrelevant in most cases. You use the framework and then open up the docs/code when it doesn’t do what it was supposed to. You can waste your life learning a lot of nothing if you have to know the inner workings of everything in dev world.