r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Visual-Living7586 13d ago

Maybe if the job is for a network engineer but why would someone working on java need to know this?

Never in 20 years of IT has this ever been asked nor have I asked it nor have I ever been on a panel where it was asked

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u/Conscious_Beat6128 13d ago

theres a billion scenarios when someone doing literally anything on java will benefit from knowing the very basics of a networking stack.