"networking" in the social sense or in the administration/programming sense?
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Good one π€£ I don't think I have ever used the word to mean "managing social networks" or the likes π€£
It's a trick question anyway, most programmers are probably bad at both Γ
Except Lain οΊ
I am so going to start to use computer networking terminology when talking about social networking from now on.
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200 OK
Connection Timeout
502 Bad Gateway
ARP ARP ARP ARP ARP
(like a socially acceptable seal)
Cicadas be like
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I would ping her, but I have no handler in the event of NACK
It is very common to use ACK in social contexts as well if you work in IT I have found. Like "had a meeting about that issue, awaiting ACK from John"
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She was SYN flooded, if y'know what I mean...
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If it helps, I'm from the other side of networking and infra. You could swap the labels and make the meme accurate for me.
In the mid 1980s I learn the BASIC programming command GOTO and fell in love for a lifetime. If you look any anything I used to write in Ruby script or today in Python you'll see my love affair with "if" "elfi" and "else" continues. My universe is nested "if" statements all the way down.
If you like if statements, you'll love the python case statements for pattern matching
Ohhh nice! I could see replacing dozens of nested if statements with dozens of nested case statements!
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Please avoid nested if statements. Instead use early returns when possible.
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It was fashionable at a time to avoid ifs and other imperative structures, but I tend to like them. Functional is nice and all but I like my code to be smart in the way it works, not in the way it's written. Nested ifs are readable, collapsible, and easy to make sense of at a glance, there's often nothing wrong with using them.
Same here! I can put together a half-descent network in just a few hours, but even programming simple stuff on microcontrollers is a major endeavor. And the documentation is usually terrible or nonexistent. And the tutorials are usually barely able to cover basic questions. At least in the space of networking, thereβs enough context clues in the UI that I can piece together the solution I need.
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My universe is nested "if" statements all the way down
Also known as AI π€£
In one college class we had to reimplement TCP in our own code on top of real UDP sockets. That was a fun class.
Fun, sarcasm?
I had a class where we did a similar thing, except it was re-inmplementing basic forms of internet and transport protocols on top of the link layer
And it was a really really fun class imo, no sarcasm
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The problem with networking is debugging it. The worst is debugging iptables and nftables. Figuring out which chain they are going to is a massive hassle. How come we don't have any graphical tools whatsoever for this work?
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I was like this 5 years ago. Networking a lot is still effort for me, but it is just another learnable skill, and it has lots of benefits (depending on your aims, I guess)
Edit: hah, just realised this is about connecting computers, not about talking to people...
Same diff
And my boss shattering all with mean comments. Not letting me explain my code but still tearing it all down, removing all security features like checking for directory existing, connection is open aso. and then saying im not qualified for the job! Good thing i got already laid off. Bad that i'll still have to spend 3 months at this company
I'm so sorry about your job. :(
Do you mean that you were trying to write network conscious/safe code and your boss disagreed and laid you off for that reason?
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Only wizards can configure iptables for ipv4 and ipv6 port forwarding. Only wizards.
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Oh networking is easy first you go to linkedin Then... You run
tcpdump looks scary but is super neat and helpful, learn it if you haven't ;)
Still doesn't help with things like understanding routing and subnet masks and frame sizes and jfc how does any of this work
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ack
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I've enabled all the relevant permissions. I've disabled firewall protection. I've enabled file sharing on both sides. I've checked for connectivity to the other machine from the command line...
Why is my shared folder still not accessible!??!
Only computer thing I still needed to call dad about as an adult.
That's why I decided to build my first online multi-player game as an offline single-player game, and just figure out how to add the networking stuff when everything else is done- an architectural choice I definitely won't come to regret later...
I may actually be the other way around. I'm probably better at networking than programming? Not sure, I love them both but do neither professionally.
Opposite for me lol
I've been trying to remotely connect to a relational database of medical data. I've been smashing my head against a keyboard for days trying to get my fucking code to work. I can't even connect to their db on their Jupyter Spark cluster
Ooh medical data, bet there is some security involved that "gets in the way".
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