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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #60
Date: 01-01-2022
Duration: 8 hrs 28 mins
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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Service workers and PWAs
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Shivay Lamba shared Capacitor, which is used to create cross-platform iOS, Android and Progressive Web Apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
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Dheeraj Lalwani shared the Web Extension Manifest v3 Service Worker documentation that he was going through for his project.
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Harsh Kapadia shared his notes on PWAs and Service Workers and talked about how caching is a crazy business with a lot of available options and gotchas.
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Anil Harwani suggested setting up a VM and using Netscape on it to compare the development of the browser and the developer and user productivity with current browsers.
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We talked about Smart TVs.
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Harsh Kapadia shared a video on why we can’t have nice things.
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Anil Harwani shared
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An article on How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop.
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A presentation on Cache coherence in shared-memory architectures.
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The Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM), a RISC-V processor.
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We compared the value of Product Experience and Developer Experience.
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Kartik Soneji severely critiqued Harsh Kapadia's code and gave tips to improve the code by showing the code that he had refactored.
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Rishit Dagli asked Nishanth Sanjeev about Yann LeCun.
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There was a lengthy discussion on whether a Masters degree should be pursued in India or abroad.
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There was another lengthy discussion comparing the Computer Science and Computer Engineering fields.
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Another lengthy discussion was on determining whether the determinant of the empty matrix is 0 or 1.
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Ritvi Mishra shared her experiences working at a commission studio for Engineering projects where they built a smart Hookah.
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Krishna Gadia and Hardik Raheja talked about
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Maze solvers
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The P vs NP problem
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Sreekaran Srinath recapped Amit Choudhary’s 'Fastest String Search Algorithm' debacle.
Projects Showcased
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Harsh Kapadia showcased his project Asciidoctor Jet, which is a ready-to-use jet black themed template for building static sites using Asciidoctor.
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Dheeraj Lalwani showcased a Web Extension that he is currently working on called Back to Work, which blocks certain sites to reduce distractions.
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Viranchee Lotia showcased his project which involved showcasing wallpapers on an old Android phone using remote ADB and scrcpy.
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Amandeep Singh Reen showcased an Android game that he had built using the Unity Game Engine.
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