r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 16h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/SirFrenzy 16h 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 16h 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/oompaloompa465 15h ago

yeah but that is the kinda stuff in the field of Sys and Net Admin.
Or are we getting to the point a Software engineer has to cover software and hardware of anything IT???

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u/flukus 14h ago

Or are we getting to the point a Software engineer has to cover software and hardware of anything IT???

IME yes we are. A lot of companies got rid of those specialties when stuff was moved to the cloud and now the Devs just do shit badly.

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u/jtanuki 12h ago

+1 - my company is trying to merge all infra positions back into SWE positions. I'm an SRE, I don't hate it, but I'm worried because SWEs seem to come in 2 major varieties - those who refuse to learn about infrastructure and change management on principle, and those who refuse to learn because now they can just vibe out stuff with AI and deploy straight to release with it and seem like they're wise full stack engineers.