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Re:How to Interview Engineers by js2 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:26AM (#14645655)
I know we can treat a lot of the technology we use as a black box, but not knowing even the basics of that technology indicates a lack of curiosity. I'd be shocked to find a competent programmer who couldn't answer the question.

A similar question: approximately how many IPv4 addresses are there?

See also: "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know"

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Re:How to Interview Engineers by watwut on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:25AM (#14653470)
They might have been curious about different things then you. Or more interested in knowledge that helps build stuff ( still constantly learning, but choices are different).
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