I'd love to use something more user-friendly than Arch, but nothing comes close to Yaourt :(

An interviewer recently asked me "how many 'valid' combinations can you do with N parenthesis, either closing or opening?"

It sounds easy enough, yet I didn't manage to find the solution, apparently I was close enough using dynamic programming. Can you solve it ? :)

My phone autocorrect "Netbeans" to "Jetbrains". Was frustrating on the moment, but in the end I feel okay with that

I can't stand my MSI laptop keyboard. The enter key is 2x smaller to make place for a bigass * key, and the > is at the right of space key... Writing HTML makes me want to shoot myself.

What are your keyboard constructors lunacies ?

First time working with an UI designer. I'm finding out that I'm not that bad with CSS, I'm just bad at design !

My colleague sucks in all programming languages known to mankind, and he's one the best programmer I know.
Stop thinking "programming = programming language", languages are nothing ! Programming is about logic, architecture, paradigms, and that's about it.

Programming languages are the front-end of programming.

Switched from Mint to Arch 'cause 'pacman' is easier to type than 'apt-get'

I'm considering switching to a tiling windows manager. The main thing drawing me back is that in my job we work a lot on each others computers (helping, debugging, pair programming...).
Will using a tiling WM make my workspace hard to use for somebody else ? It would be disqualifying

Hey guys ! I want to start some kind of blog so I can share my experiences and tinkering with stuff.
I can't seem to find a good CMS for that ? I've no problem with coding the blog myself (with Rails preferably), but I'd like to not start from scratch ! I'll need handle syntax coloration for code samples for example.
Any advices, ready-to-use stuff or not ? :)

FUCKING FLYING FUCK CAN I HAVE A FUCKING SOLARIZED TERMINAL THEME PLEASE???

I literally spent the WHOLE FUCKING afternoon trying to get a decent solarized theme on my console...

Everything bold is NOT the good color! Bold blue or green becomes grey!!

The worst is that I understand why, I just can't seem to find a solution...

I fucking killed my hard drive by installing the guest additions in a Windows VM! Everything freezed and crashed suddenly, how the hell is that possible? How can Windows fuck everything up, even in a VM??
(Probably wasn't Windows fault, that makes me even more angry).

This hard drive wasn't even two months, his predecessor died heroically in a tragic magnet incident :(

The ':' in Python. Seriously, what the fuck?? It's literally useless!

I was bored so I learned HTML/CSS, I was like "eh, programming is easy!".
So I learned C next and I was like "eh, programming is kinda hard actually".
So I learned to program rather than learn a language, got back to C until I was comfortable with it.
Nothing is hard now :D

!rant
I just learnt that HTML + CSS3 with user interaction is Turing-complete. How cool is that shit!?
The possibilities are endless. Server-side HTML/CSS. Skynet in HTML/CSS. An OS in HTML/CSS.

Trying to understand how I coded a hangman game (my first program ever, in C) is actually a puzzle far more complex and interesting than the game itself

I feel like half the time I spend doing Python is fixing forgotten colons.
Seriously, it seems like a massive incoherence in the language to me, it drives me crazy!

I want to like you Python, but you make it difficult :(

Just got the most introspective job interview ever.
Like, I think those guys now understand me better than my parents do.
Like, I learnt more about myself during this interview process than during my psychological evaluation.
Like, I changed my career plan twice during the interview process.

I don't know who I am anymore but I wanna work with those guys

Despite what seem to be supported a lot on the internet, yes you can kill a hard drive with a magnet. As simple as dropping it on your running laptop! Try it at home!

If I'm bored enough to post a rant during a job interview, the job may not be for me

Getting an interview tomorrow with a pair programming test. I've never done pair programming (they know it), any tip?

Pet peeve #1: those guys who iterate over a whole array with 'for' and 'break' on a condition. Have you ever heard of fckng 'while'??
Git source code will be the death of me.