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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #148
Date: 09-09-2023
Duration: 2 hrs 36 mins
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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Prateek Pardeshi talked about using Spring Boot at work versus using Node.js.
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We talked about why starting programming with Java rather than Python could be better. The general consensus was that Python spoils people with its in-built libraries and doesn’t expose them to a standard Object-Oriented Programming paradigm early on, which makes it difficult to adapt to such projects in the real world.
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Obviously there is a lot of context involved in this point, as we were mainly considering Software Developers over people interested in AI and Data Science.
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We talked about 6 Reasons Why Companies Don’t Update Their Technology
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On a slightly unrelated note, Harsh Kapadia shared two articles.
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Harsh Kapadia talked about his project of turning a laptop into a server and the Dynamic DNS utility that he built for his project.
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We talked about what Emacs is - an extensible, customizable text editor that can a do a lot more than just text editing. Some even consider it an entire Operating System!
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In the same vein, Darshit Suratwala shared Alacrity, a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration.
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Harsh Kapadia shared three satires on Tech-enthusiast stereotypes.
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Harsh Kapadia also shared
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We talked about the difference between User Interface (UI) and Heads-Up Display (HUD) in games.
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We talked about how Java decodes Unicode characters in programs before starting lexical translation.
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This can potentially bypass security tool checks, because innocuous-looking Unicode in comments can be used to end comments and execute random code, much like what happens in SQL Injections.
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Why is executing Java code in comments with certain Unicode characters allowed?
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Attendees
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Ashmit Rawat
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Bhavesh Kukreja
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Devesh Shelatkar
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Dipanshu Khandait
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Hritik Sharma
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Krish Bulchandani
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Mir
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Parth Gupta
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Prateek Pardeshi
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Saish
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Sarvesh Yogi
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Srishti Singh
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Vrinda Bundelkhandi
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