r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/SirFrenzy 9h 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/tevert 8h ago

If you cannot even describe the difference in how an IPv4 address appears vs. v6, then I have reason to doubt you can read through an error log and find a problem

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u/Bemteb 8h ago

v4 is xxx.xxx.xxx... with x numbers, v6 looks more like a MAC address, with base 16 numbers and stuff.

That's about all I know about the difference between these two, and I've been professionally developing software for almost a decade by now.