Programmers with network engineering skills

Thu Mar 8 22:24:05 UTC 2012

On Monday, March 05, 2012 09:36:41 PM Jimmy Hess wrote:
> > Other common, but misguided assumptions (even in 2012):
> > 1. You will be using IPv4.  We have no idea what this IPv6 nonsense is.
> > Looks complicated and scary.
> > 2. 255.255.255.0 is the only valid netmask.
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>    (16)  The default gateway's IP address is always 192.168.0.1
>    (17) The user portion of E-mail addresses never contain special
> characters like  "-" "+"  "$"   "~"  "."  ",", "[",  "]"

Hilarious.  Wish I'd seen this a few days ago, my whole week would have been brighter.... I'll add one from my 'I asked the programmer about a problem in the code, which the programmer proceeded to say wasn't a problem' list:

(18) No, our control protocol doesn't have authentication, it's up to the network to keep undesired users out. (I won't say what this software is, but suffice to say the package in which it was a part cost over $250,000).   