OTC CatchUp #57 Summary

General introductions.

We recommended a SSD and HDD hybrid laptop to Aaditya Chinchkhedkar. A NVMe SSD was also recommended for a faster performance.

Sreekaran Srinath and Ishan Sharma talked about résumés. They discussed how some seemingly free services don’t allow downloading résumés once the user has made it on their platform, without paying and showcased that résumés in HTML are ATS parsable when converted to PDFs.

Sanni Prasad talked about how heap.io collects ALL user interactions in an app and how one can segregate all the collected data to create charts and visualisations on heap.io’s dashboard. This is easier than planning for analytics tracking while designing the app.

The React Conf 2021 YouTube channel was shared for anyone who wanted to watch the videos.

We discussed the pros and cons of various job offers that Sanni Prasad had received and also talked about ESOP.

Sreekaran Srinath and Ishan Sharma explained what Y Combinator is and the various stages of Startup funding.

Anil Harwani told us how Engineers should know business functions to be able to understand the reasons behind decisions taken by the management and to be able to interact and hold conversations with Business Executives.

Anil Harwani showcased an Azure HBv3 machine with 120 cores.

Anil Harwani explained the reasoning behind PS5 chip shortages. He told us how demand is currently more than supply and talked about substrate, wafer and supply chain problems.

Harsh Kapadia asked how dynamic/automatic OG image generation can be implemented.

Chirag Nayyar told us about his ongoing experience being in a job notice period.

Anil Harwani talked about his work in AMD’s upcoming chip Genoa.

Anil Harwani shared a link to an excellent MIT course, The Missing Semester of Your CS Education.

Anil Harwani told us how he has seen a LOT of companies scale much more than required because they didn’t know the hardware they were using properly and were thus not using it optimally. He said that the more one knows about hardware, the more optimized their service will be.

Anil Harwani also showed us pictures of his amazing custom water-cooled PC.

We talked about the differences between WSL 1 and WSL 2.

Anil Harwani talked on a lot of topics.

Sreekaran Srinath shared The Egg by Andy Weir: A Profound Story on the Process of Becoming.

Kartik Soneji talked about NTLM in Windows. (More on Windows Hashes)

Sreekaran Srinath and Kartik Soneji discussed Dasha’s upcoming hackathon.

Sreekaran Srinath and Kartik Soneji also discussed about people getting overwhelmed when they start exploring new stuff.

Ishan Sharma showcased improved designs for GitHub Wrapped 2021.

Sreekaran Srinath opened a PR on OTC’s website repo to improve the URLs. (Link to PR)

Sreekaran Srinath opened a PR on OTC’s website repo to add himself to the team page as a meme. (Link to PR) (Click on the title of the page to view him!)