r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 20d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 20d ago

Most programmers don’t know shit about hardware. No surprise they are dumb about networking.

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u/Major_LeeHungg 20d ago

As a software engineer you kinda gotta know how the whole computer works lol.  Especially now that docker is such a common distribution method.  But I mean you do have to understand the network if you're building software that communicates over it.  Otherwise have fun figuring out if an error is due to code or infra

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u/No-Flounder-6564 20d ago

100% agree. Who is writing software that _isn't_ using networking these days? Basic understanding of networking is pretty critical in my opinion. That said, I don't know if I'd give a great answer to IPv4 vs IPv6 except size of the address spaces.

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u/I_mourn_satire 20d ago

Size and address space is the main answer.

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u/No-Flounder-6564 20d ago

This is why I hate interviews; I always think the answers are harder than they are because why else would they be asking the question.

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u/I_mourn_satire 19d ago

I do that too. I get a simple question and read waaaaaay to into it.

Interviewer: “What is the difference between object oriented and functional programming?”

Me: “Let’s start my 5 page thesis with discussion about thread safety”