OTC CatchUp #173 Summary

Darshan Rander talked about how he was incorporating OAuth and Google Drive backups into his mobile application Heartry.

Darshan Rander and Swapnil Borkar talked about how most mobile application playstores take a share of the revenue, have a review process before releasing an update to an app and an automatic staged user rollout feature.

Swapnil Borkar shared his article User Testing to spot Insights & Inferences in Uber & Ola’s Design

Harsh Kapadia shared Google says it’ll stop charging fees to transfer data out of Google Cloud and mentioned that he was surprised because all Cloud providers generally like to lock customers into their technologies and impose high migration fees so that they think twice before moving data out of their services.

Rishit Dagli shared that some iPhone models have Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors to create a 3D map of one’s immediate surroundings. Some autonomous vehicles also use LiDAR to create a map of their surroundings.

Harsh Kapadia shared a few videos recounting AMD's history.

Viranchee Lotia shared his C++ learnings that he was learning from github.com/federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming.

Jimmy Palathingal told us how C++ does not have in-built Garbage Collection, so we have to implement it ourselves.

Rishit Dagli told us about various Mathematical terms while we were discussing Floating Point representation.

Rishit Dagli and Viranchee Lotia told us about various floating-point formats like bfloat16 and the way they differ in the number of bits to represent a Floating Point number.

CUDA vs ROCm: The Ongoing Battle for GPU Computing Supremacy

Kartik Soneji talked about his Capture The Flag (CTF) experience.

Self-driving cars

Harsh Kapadia shared Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.