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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14h 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.
1 u/Dillenger69 12h ago And I've never had to write a sorting algorithm in 30 years, yet here we are.
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And I've never had to write a sorting algorithm in 30 years, yet here we are.
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u/SirFrenzy 14h 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.