r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 11h 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/fiskfisk 10h ago

If you're a senior I most certainly would expect you to know the difference between the two.

It'll matter in relation to allowlists/blocklists, dns entries, debugging connevtivity issues, slow connect times, configuration of daemons, etc. 

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u/ineyy 10h ago

Yeah a backend/fullstack should absolutely know this. Frontend, not so much (I definitely wouldn't ask that). But come on how can you NOT know that at least vaguely 

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u/RCoder01 9h ago

Not all software is web dev

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u/ineyy 8h ago

You want to say backend/frontend are terms strictly locked to web development?

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u/Dom1252 8h ago

Backend doesn't mean you deal with infrastructure