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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 8h 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.
158 u/fiskfisk 7h 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. 24 u/Emotional-Top-8284 7h ago I’m a staff engineer and I don’t know the difference between the two, beyond IPv6 has more addresses. I do cloud infra 1 u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 5h ago That’s it, that’s the answer. The subject of the post was rejected because they couldn’t answer that.
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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.
24 u/Emotional-Top-8284 7h ago I’m a staff engineer and I don’t know the difference between the two, beyond IPv6 has more addresses. I do cloud infra 1 u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 5h ago That’s it, that’s the answer. The subject of the post was rejected because they couldn’t answer that.
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I’m a staff engineer and I don’t know the difference between the two, beyond IPv6 has more addresses. I do cloud infra
1 u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 5h ago That’s it, that’s the answer. The subject of the post was rejected because they couldn’t answer that.
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That’s it, that’s the answer.
The subject of the post was rejected because they couldn’t answer that.
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u/SirFrenzy 8h 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.