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OTC CatchUp #149

Date: 16-09-2023

Duration: 3 hrs 17 mins

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • We talked about how much someone should handhold a beginner.

    • Darshan Rander believes in helping others till he can.

    • Dheeraj Lalwani believes in giving them a direction and not hand-holding them.

      • He shared his story about how much he was able to learn while debugging the issue that he faced while installing C.

  • Jaden Furtado talked about his experience of giving a talk on NLP in college.

    • He shared his project JadenFurtado/LLaMaO which he gave talk on.

    • He said that he faced issues because attendees were lacking knowledge of maths required to understand LLMs.

  • We talked about the preferences of people using Git CLI and other tools around it.

    • Dheeraj Lalwani uses VSCode diff view and uses Git CLI for most of the things.

    • Darshan Rander prefers using VSCode’s integrated system of Git but he prefers gitui (CLI) as it has much better was to add hunks and navigation system.

  • Dheeraj Lalwani shared what issues fold.money is facing as Credit card providers are not cooperating much with them.

    • The solutions were to scrape users' emails or ask them to set up an auto mail forwarder for Credit card transaction emails.

  • Dheeraj Lalwani shared how he got his interview at fold.money.

    • He got his interview because he followed up with the team.

Projects Showcased

  • Siddharth Bhatia showcased Install C which as the name suggests helps users to install C easily.

    • The reason for this project was to make it easier to install C build tools and compiler for new users and help them for an easy onboard.

Attendees

  1. Anas Khan

  2. Darshan Rander

  3. Darshit Suratwala

  4. Dheeraj Lalwani

  5. Hardik Raheja

  6. Jia Harisinghani

  7. Mohit Gangwani

  8. Pranav Prasanna Dani

  9. Sahil Prasad

  10. Saket Thota

  11. Siddharth Bhatia

  12. Siddharth Kaduskar

  13. Smit Jethva

  14. Wilfred Almeida

  15. Jaden Furtado

  16. Bhavesh Kukreja

  17. Dishan Sawant

  18. Krishana Dave

  19. Piush Paul

  20. Satyam Patil

  21. Shivendra Patil

  22. Vinay Thakurani

  23. Yash Raj

  24. mohit rajpal

Meet Screenshot

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