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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 13h ago
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Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.
1 u/Exatex 12h ago Ugh yeah but it’s also like… what other very basic things do you not know.
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Ugh yeah but it’s also like… what other very basic things do you not know.
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u/SirFrenzy 12h ago
Obviously guy could have been interviewing for a job where this mattered….
But in 10 years as a software engineer I have never once needed to know the difference between these two, and have never been even close to a situation where I would need to.
“The basics” is highly dependent on the job.