OTC CatchUp #150 Summary

Darshan Rander suggested using the Map My India API.

He believes that there are a lot of white-spaces in the application which he didn’t like much.

Darshan Rander shared Async/Await - Flutter in Focus.

Harsh Kapadia suggested watching What the heck is the event loop anyway?

We all were glad that a company finally listened to their user base.

We also talked about how Unity has lost the trust of their developer users because everyone will keep in the back of their minds how companies can very easily turn on their users. Some argued that this might not be the case as people might forget about it.

She discussed Appliqué, which is an open-source design system for enterprise applications.

Anil Harwani talked about how a Keylogger works. It is basically installing a driver in the system so that it captures the strokes and sends them to a server or save them locally.

Anil Harwani talked about IA64, an old ISA from Intel that was seen in their processor Itanium. It was supposed to be the alternative to amd64, but it never caught any traction.

link:https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking intel-and-amd-settle-agree-cross-licensing-deal/[Intel and AMD settle agree cross-licensing deal^]

AMD clarifies cross-license with Intel

He gave an example of how he wanted to know what is happening behind the scenes of a print() statement.

Anil Harwani gave him a brief about the different levels of abstraction that are developed on a computer system and how he can think of abstractions as a layer to make things easier to understand. To understand abstractions better, Anil gave examples of various abstractions by including real-life examples.

Anil Harwani talked about how hackathon promotes completing tasks instead of writing code with good practices. He also stated how there isn’t sufficient time for ideation.

Darshan Rander suggested distributing the project work amongst group members.

Anil Harwani talked about how the intent should be to help your teammates, not completely leave them. He acknowledged how there should be multiple plans for your project if anything at the last moment may fail.