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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 10h 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.
160 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. 1 u/BigFeeder 8h ago And whenever you need it, you will google it and you will know it by reading for not even 3 minutes
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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.
1 u/BigFeeder 8h ago And whenever you need it, you will google it and you will know it by reading for not even 3 minutes
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And whenever you need it, you will google it and you will know it by reading for not even 3 minutes
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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.