"networking" in the social sense or in the administration/programming sense?

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.

In one college class we had to reimplement TCP in our own code on top of real UDP sockets. That was a fun class.

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?

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...

Only wizards can configure iptables for ipv4 and ipv6 port forwarding. Only wizards.

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

Only computer thing I still needed to call dad about as an adult.

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 ;)

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!??!

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...

My confidence in disk management and partition tables is made of horse hair, single strand.

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