How many of us here suffer from depression or any other mental illness? And how does it hinder you from living your normal life?

I hear a lot that doing competitive programming is important to land jobs and that it would improve your ability to solve problems, however; I hate it and I suck at it so much. I don't see improvement except for knowing how to solve a certain problem and I forget about it after some time.

I can't stand doing any kind of abstract, unrealistic problem solving for whatever reason. I love solving real-world problems that actually matter and provide an actual value on the other hand.

A kind of twisted question but what are the features/keywords/syntax you don't want to be in your favorite programming language?

Do you get informed about the reasons behind business decisions in your job?

That wasn't the case in my last job and I dreaded my code for that reason.

I think this kind of lack of information can lead to bad engineering decisions and unstructured code. Also, this doesn't lead to the needed ownership of your work.

What do you think?

I love programming and everything but my god, this career can suck your soul out of you!

Godly motivation.

Everyone is wishing others a happy new year and I'm here feeling angry and depressed!

The longest vacation I took in my last job was only for three days. I didn't touch a computer for those three days.

Got my linux setup bricked the day before my final exam.

!rant

It's weird how a tiny gesture from someone you care about/like is enough to make your whole day.

I wanna talk about the obsession that precedes every new personal project.

I keep thinking about it, searching, getting new ideas and more features, pulling my hair, and laughing like a mad scientist. I think I might be crazy.

Final exams: The best time to start side projects.

Ruby on Rails?

Contributing to large open source projects.

It's something I wanted to do since I fell in love with one programming language (which shall remain nameless here). However, I'm not restricting myself to one project. I have many projects I'd like to contribute to.

I even wrote this down in my 5-year plan for the future.

I spent an hour and a half googling and compiling my code because I typed `#ifdef` instead of `ifndef` in one my header files.

Can you C the difference?

I came here to rant about how bad Twitter API is but I found out that I already made a rant about that before.

To me, working on something that's mentally challenging is the ultimate fun.

I'm trying to enable GitHub issues based comments on my blog. However, I'm not sure if it's worth this mess.

It's weird how imposter syndrome kicks in when I get notifications on something I shared on social media!

Yesterday, I met with my friends from university (we haven't met for over a year). We ranted so much we can fill devRant for days to come.

I just finished building a feature only to realize that it won't work!

A sudden flooding feeling of mediocrity...

Today, I set up a Tumblr blog where I can write my non-tech related rants. It's actually a very nice platform.

Twitter API really sucks!

Stackoverflow status quo:

A question was upvoted 122 times --> Closed as too broad.

I'm rewriting a game from C++ to C just for the purpose of learning and adding more features, however; after I refactored the code, the game broke with a segmentation fault and I have no idea where the memory issue is.

I've been debugging for hours now and I've got nothing. FML

What kind of a fucked up company that has a 9 interview process in a 3 month period and sends the rejection email without a single line of feedback?

They are a fucking startup, not Google! Not even close to a company like Google!!

It's my mistake that I put up with their shit from the beginning but I didn't know any better.

I just got a response from a recruiter saying that I didn't pass the screening because "they need people with degrees". Why the fuck didn't you mention that in your job requirements before wasting my time? Fuck recruiters and their degrees!!

I read the source code of a guy who decided to name his variables, functions, and comments in Spanish which is not a language I'm familiar with. So I need to first translate the code into English and then understand what it does.

I found this in my notes. Apparently, I wrote these during work in my last company.