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If you set up a web server for anything in the last few years you would have picked up something about SSL. Even if you just skim the rationale before copying t

by blfr 9y ago

If you set up a web server for anything in the last few years you would have picked up something about SSL. Even if you just skim the rationale before copying the configs from Mozilla. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Modern_compatibility https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Modern_com... If you used git, you probably even did a rebase. Or at least tried to. Or at least saw it as an option. These aren't obscure university topics.

jordanpg 9y ago
Right. They were chosen because experienced Java devs should be extremely comfortable with them. Not just familiar, but basically experts. And if they're not, it's a big red flag that casts a shadow over really anything else they have to say. I'm sure each language/technology has a small list of universals that experienced practitioners should be quite comfortable with. Of course there are exceptions, it's not perfect, but my point is that these things are a good proxy for estimating overall competence level.
- rhizome 9y ago
  By what measure are you prioritizing Java+git over e.g. Java+Perforce in terms of universals?
  - oehn34the9 9y ago
    Thank you for saying this! I have 30 years of paid CS experience, a degree, owned my own software company, worked for Fortune 50 companies and don't use any of those technologies. (I have used git, and used rebase, but like everything in git, it's so poorly named for what it does, that I don't remember exactly. I wouldn't even want to try to explain it at this point.)