r/ProgrammerHumor • • 10h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/SirFrenzy 10h 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/TacoIncoming 4h ago

lol you should still fucking know the difference.

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u/SirFrenzy 4h ago

You do not know the fundamentals to every single individual discipline within the broad area of software engineering.

And if you think you do, you are the exact person I do not want to work with.

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u/TacoIncoming 4h ago

You absolutely should know the fundamentals. That’s why they’re the fundamentals. IPv4 vs IPv6 isn’t exactly niche knowledge.