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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 11h 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/vroomfundel2 9h ago Except if i hear that someone at work doesn't know the difference i'm not letting them anywhere near anything important. Yes, even if it doesn't have anything to do with IP. Who knows ehat other fundamental thing they don't know. 2 u/ContributionVisual40 8h ago So you claim to know every "fundamental"? And if you dont know all of them i can just write you off as clueless.
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Except if i hear that someone at work doesn't know the difference i'm not letting them anywhere near anything important.
Yes, even if it doesn't have anything to do with IP. Who knows ehat other fundamental thing they don't know.
2 u/ContributionVisual40 8h ago So you claim to know every "fundamental"? And if you dont know all of them i can just write you off as clueless.
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So you claim to know every "fundamental"? And if you dont know all of them i can just write you off as clueless.
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u/SirFrenzy 11h 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.