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Likewise, I hear this all the time and it's absolutely mind-blowing. I lean more sysadmin than development, but can you imagine something like: "yeah I know ba
by parliament32 7y ago
Likewise, I hear this all the time and it's absolutely mind-blowing.
I lean more sysadmin than development, but can you imagine something like: "yeah I know bash, but I have no idea what a disk is".
- ForHackernews 7y agoWhat is a disk? You mean optical media, a 5.25" magnetic disk, SSD, a file system mounted over a network? Every time this topic comes up, it smacks of "you're an idiot for not choosing to work at the same layer of abstraction that I chose [or was forced, back in the good old days] to work at".
- 0x445442 7y agoExactly! If you circle back around to his original objection the same argument can be made... "You use strcpy every day but you don't know exactly how it's implemented?". That's the whole damn point of abstraction layers and his example of not knowing the details of the HTTP protocol is just as arbitrary as anything else.