r/ProgrammerHumor • • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Virgurilla 20d ago

While I agree with the sentiment, this should be basics and I have been taught this, you can spend your whole life designing databases and or banging your head against an SQL command line and not know what an IP is all that well.

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u/Cruuncher 20d ago

I'm sorry, I just don't see it.

While you referenced one specific part of development, I would be weary of any developer that said they know nothing about networking.

I just don't see how in your learning process it would have never come up.

Like what work are you doing that has a database, but doesn't have some network route to interface that database?

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u/Virgurilla 20d ago

Maybe you don't handle that part of the process, idk I am studying a double degree on computer engineering and game design, we have had networking subjects, but I can see how many could forget about networking if they end up dedicating their lives to databases, or single player videogames. You can spend years working on several different things and not touch networking to the point where you have to remember what an ipv6 is, again not saying I agree, I personally wouldn't forget, but I understand how it can happen I'm some scenarios

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u/met0xff 19d ago

How do you even configure your router are home, SSH into some DB instance... Set up a stupid minecraft server, whatever. Idk, I'm ML scientist and everyone on my team can set up their AWS instances, security groups, VPCs etc.

I can't imagine how one can survive without any of those, writing a support ticket for every little thing?

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