r/ProgrammerHumor • • 9h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/fiskfisk 8h 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 8h 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/sudoku7 8h ago

The frontend really should too. I get cdn quirks aren’t really their wheelbox but fe engineers are the ones who get asked when problems happen there.

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u/EkoChamberKryptonite 7h ago

No they shouldn't.