OTC CatchUp #97 Summary

General Introductions.

Dheeraj Lalwani talked about the self organised Kurzgesagt meetup that he recently attended in Mumbai. The crowd was eclectic in terms of working background. He met a few like minded science enthusiasts as well.

Pranav Dani shared why he has a predilection towards subjects like OS and DSA which are heavily logic oriented and also form the foundation of computers in a way. While machine learning certainly has some benefits over traditional methods, it is undeniably resource heavy.

Anil Harwani talked about the Ice cream problem. Ice creams used to have less flavours such as chocolate or vanilla. People could choose any one and return home happily. Now flavours for ice creams have increased a lot, which means that their are too many choices for people to choose from.

Nikunj Mistry had his doubts regarding databases and using Python. Dheeraj Lalwani suggested some projects and how he could learn and implement database concepts while making them.

Siddharth Bhatia shared his experience of hosting the Kurzgesagt meetup.

Saurabh Suryan shared that he recently moved to BLR as a frontend enginner working on React Native at a company called Jupiter Money. It uses a kotlin based backend.

We talked about how people have mixed feelings about using React Native, especially with data fetching, SWR and caching.

Darshan Rander talked about his experience at Google Cloud Community Days 2022 - Mumbai. He got meet many experienced people, but the overall event was targetted towards students.

Saifuddin Saifee shared that he will be relaunching Technical Student Chapter (his community) as The Network.

Dhiraj Chauhan shared how he uses MLH influence to improve his community crowd.

We talked about work culture at some companies. Some might try to introduce competition between employees to gain quicker profits, while others might try to make it a collaborative environment where growth is steady.

Dhiraj Chauhan and Darshan Rander talked about web3. Web2 is established and important and can do most of the work so it is better not to ignore web2 while learning more about web3.

We discussed how many websites nowadays might seem resource heavy. While novelty and design of a website surely matters, there should be a good balance between performance and practical design, since generally novelty drives web traffic.

Saifuddin Saifee and Pranav Dani talked about how people might have interests in many fields but choose to talk about only one of them according to the audience.

Saifuddin Saifee suggested that college committees might not provide its member the complete authority to conduct events as per their wishes. This is one of the potential reasons due to which people might choose to form their own communities without college ties.

Abhishek showcased a MockUp for Flipkart that he made using HTML and CSS.