OTC CatchUp #253 Summary

Krishna Gadia mentioned that, with recent AI advancements, the IT industry in India is becoming more inclined to hire skilled freshers rather than experienced developers.

Mohit shared about different full-time Software Developer openings at Zeta Hyderabad.

Nirmal Panchal asked how some concepts he learned in school were relevant to the practical tech world.

Mohit gave an overview the different repositories in GrapheneOS and explained that contributing doesn’t require understanding every part of the codebase.

A brief discussion on how one can modify and rebuild the Android OS to build their own OS was done

Krishna Gadia shared his own experiences and the importance of giving honest replies to questions one does not have answers to.

Mohit described differences between Flutter when it was launched and how things had changed since then.

Folks shared their opinions on the usage of different shapes to represent different states in Material 3 Expressive.

Jaden highlighted a critical issue with NPCI’s offline payment offering of double spending with no network connectivity

A discussion around how a simple digital cheque based system analogous to physical cheques could be a better option to support offline payments.

Krishna Gadia mentioned about legal implication for sender and receiver of a physical cheque when it bounces with reference

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