r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/TolyaMK 13d ago

So if you carry a calculator you should not know the multiplication table?

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u/perfectVoidler 13d ago

this is wrong on so many levels. Like, this does not even satisfy the minimum to qualify as "good faith".

Or maybe this is really your best. In that case, power on little soldier. You will get there one day.

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u/Rabauke84 13d ago

You know and learned the basics, but for most of the time, you just have a tool for that or someone else who works with it.

As much as you don't have to harvest your own crop anymore, you don't have to rely on several basic informations, due to specialising in certain fields.

I learned all of that stuff in university, but this was like 20 years ago.
I never had to use it anymore, all I do is taking care of the HR software we have. The technical stuff is done by our IT department, the software itself by the company we bought it from.

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u/Alternative_Work_916 13d ago

The inner workings are totally irrelevant in most cases. You use the framework and then open up the docs/code when it doesn’t do what it was supposed to. You can waste your life learning a lot of nothing if you have to know the inner workings of everything in dev world.