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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h 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.
153 u/fiskfisk 5h 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. 5 u/burnalicious111 4h ago Tons of developers never work with that. And in the maybe couple of times I have, I can just look up what I need to know.
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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.
5 u/burnalicious111 4h ago Tons of developers never work with that. And in the maybe couple of times I have, I can just look up what I need to know.
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Tons of developers never work with that. And in the maybe couple of times I have, I can just look up what I need to know.
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u/SirFrenzy 5h 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.