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OTC CatchUp #141
Date: 22-07-2023
Duration: 3 hrs 36 mins
Topics Discussed
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Siddharth Kaduskar shared CS50 Course on AI.
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Ishan Sharma our PowerPoint Wizard gave a run through of his slides and how he made those for React Nexus.
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Wilfred Almeida asked Rishit Dagli how he transpile TypeScript to WASM.
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Rishit Dagli suggested him to use QuickJS
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Chirag Nayyar shared about his sabbatical and how it has impacted his life.
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Harsh Kapadia asked Chirag Nayyar what he thought of before taking sabbatical. To which he replied -
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Financials were not his major concerns as he had a good idea about his expenses and had enough saved.
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Coming to India where people generally know understand it was difficult for him.
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Harsh Kapadia asked, how can someone if they should stick or leave a company?
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Aditya Oberai said that he thinks that it depends on how much time you feel you can invest in a company.
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For Darshan Rander it was like when you are getting bored of your work.
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Aditya Oberai pointed that at certain times when you have dependents you can’t quit because you are bored and sometimes repetition is important.
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Chirag Nayyar said that you should get involved in sales cycles so you will have a better idea of where company is headed and decide if it with you.
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Darshan Rander asked wether he should get Google One subcription or self-host Immich (Google Photos alternative). The opinions are as follows -
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Aditya Oberai said if your primary usecase if to share photos via links then Google Photos is a better option as it is with everyone.
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Self hosting will be a fun and a good learning experience.
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Google One will give storage for across all the Google products
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Jay Kaku shared about Istio, it’s a service mesh which helps Kubernetes and traditional workloads to improve discoverablity.
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Chirag Nayyar talked about ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and why it’s so confusing and how PUE (Power usage effectiveness) is calculated of a Data center.
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Chirag Nayyar shared about how data center tiers are classified.
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Chirag Nayyar talked about cloud repatriation and why people are considering to go away from cloud.
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