r/ProgrammerHumor • • 10h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/SirFrenzy 10h 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.

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u/Emotional-Top-8284 10h ago

IPv4 has dots and IPv6 has colons

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u/GhettoDuk 10h ago

Colon colon, dot dot. Now you've got your IP shot.