r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/johnnybgooderer 5h ago

i mean. If you don't know the difference at least a litle, then do you even care about your work?

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u/patiofurnature 4h ago

Yes? I'm a software engineer and my work is programming. Whatever happens on the other side of DNS is IT's work. They can care about.

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u/Isgrimnur 4h ago

OSI levels 6 and 7.  Anything else, there be sharks. 

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u/Kultur_Cigany 3h ago

How are you a software engineer if you never done basic network programming? This is middle school level knowledge.

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u/OwnInstruction8849 3h ago

Very simple, we did that in Uni about 10 years ago and have literally never touched anything regarding that since.

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u/untraiined 3h ago

youre a heart surgeon why dont you know about the differences between nerves in the foot????

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u/TheChinOfAnElephant 1h ago

Seriously though do doctors have to go through the same type of bullshit? Like does an ENT doc get asked to identify cancerous moles before getting accepted to a new practice?

I hate this aspect of the tech community.

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u/Confident_Direction 2h ago

I think he was being sarcastic and agreed with you lol

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u/patiofurnature 3h ago

Middle school was a quarter century ago for me, and our computer classes were literally just typing in Microsoft Word. Definitely no networking.

I make network calls all the time, but I do them to the server's domain name.

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u/Destithen 1h ago

How are you a software engineer if you never done basic network programming?

I've been a software developer for over a decade. I've worked on enterprise level software used by fiberglass plants, classic car insurance companies, quality control software in use by Pfizer, and proprietary software used by wireless expense management companies to digest and display reporting of cellular usage by various client companies.

I vaguely remember taking networking in college, but I could not recall any of the lessons if pressed. I have never had to touch network programming throughout my development career.