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OTC CatchUp #98
Date: 24-09-2022
Duration: 4 hrs 2 mins
Topics Discussed
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Harsh Kapadia talked about new challenges that he is currently facing in the US.
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He said that his assignments related to SQL and java are challenging but fun.
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Some assignments were related to making an extensible Tic-tac-toe game using java, which would be later used to make a game called Order and Chaos (Order and Chaos is a variant of the game tic-tac-toe).
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He also discussed how he used sockets to test throughput using java.
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We talked about digital communication, how it is made secure using the public key cryptography and how digital certificates helps with that.
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We then discussed how TLS and OCSP hits the certificate authority to verify the certificate.
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CRL - Certificate revocation list checks for the certificate locally and if it exists then it does not make a request.
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Google Chrome will stop validating digital certificates.
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Kaushal Joshi talked about blogging, freelance, internship, active search.
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Anil Harwani started a discussion on the ability to focus while learning new things.
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We are supposed to be studying right now so that we don’t regret.
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Anil Harwani also pointed out how everything is a trade off and nothing is free even if it says free.
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Time is extremely precious, it won’t come back.
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Every decision is a trade-off.
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We should not waste be wasting time when we have important things at hand.
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Anil Harwani also pointed out how Indian kids rely so much on their parents.
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He suggested us to make our food.
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Anil Harwani shared how he used to optimise his time while he was studying in college. He used to challenge himself or read a book while he used to travel.
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You need to hold yourself accountable since no one else will.
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Harsh Kapadia talked about how he feels about passion being missing when students complete assignments. He feels most of them are more driven towards having an internship or a job.
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Most Indian students do jobs or study engineering since it is a means to an end.
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Nine times out of ten, a job is a means to an end and that’s why it’s called a job.
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We discussed ways in which a processor can go idle to save power.
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Clocked Gating. Clock gating is a power-saving feature in semiconductor microelectronics that enables switching off circuits.
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Power Gating. Power gating is a technique used in integrated circuit design to reduce power consumption, by shutting off the current to blocks of the circuit that are not in use.
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We talked about how foundational courses that colleges include in syllabus are very important to become a good software engineer.
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Many people have lost the ability to dive deep into a topic and understand the crux of it.
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Documenting ways to implement a project is not helpful for others since many people would then start building the same project even though they aren’t qualified to build it. This is a problem since people who do not understand what’s happening will then blame the creator.
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A better way to write a document is to assume certain level of knowledge that the reader is expected to have and then provide small tips to optimise the work that they are expecting to do.
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Dheeraj Lalwani shared an issue he faced at his internship where he changed a function’s response without realizing that it has been used in multiple places which led to a ripple effect breaking everything. Anil Harwani said that it could have been avoided with a simple search had he just checked once before where that particular function had been used.
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Anil Harwani said, our generation has forgot to read code. He suggested to spend more time reading code and understanding its usage, and then writing code.
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We then talked about Facts, axioms - that are true.
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known known - things that we as humans understand.
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known unknown - things that we don’t know.
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unknown unknown - things that we don’t know (Someone puts efforts and makes it work).
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Aryan Nayak talked about his work at the Amazon Search team and how they process all data of Amazon, storing in multi clusters, using Elastic search.
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