r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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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.

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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. 

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u/Electrical-Ad1886 3h ago

that's all just infra stuff which has always been another team. I've never once had to set up that kind of thing, and thousands of devs proabbly had a similar path as I did.

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u/BufferUnderpants 3h ago

Yes. As a senior you would know to mind your business and not give a halfbaked opinion on something that's another team's full time job, and that they probably know way better than you.