011 - Spring Forward

What to prepare: Dhruv's take Ravi's take Algorithms: Linked lists, stacks and queues, sorting, trees and search, hash tables, graphs, strings, dynamic programming Textbooks: CLRS, Algorithms by Sedgewick Sedgewick's Algorithms's courses on Coursera. Cracking the Coding Interview Programming Interviews Exposed LeetCode When to prepare: Dhruv's take Ravi's take How to prepare: Solving on whiteboards Attitude Resume and projects...

This is Part 1 on our two-part podcast on Programming Interviews. This week, we talk about how we went from hating programming interviews to understanding and appreciating them, and doing well.  Our first experience with programming interviews at BITS Pilani in 2005-06. How our friend Sankar Tanguturi mastered the art of interviews, and taught us how to do the same. Our initial hatred for interviews Why should I study algorithms etc. to interview for jobs where I'll be doing something completely different?...

Pawan Kalyan on Twitter. Why do celebrities use Twitter? Why not Facebook? Reach of Facebook vs. Twitter in India Can we use Twitter analytics as a metric for success? 2014 in tech Things Dhruv is looking forward to in 2015 Apple Watch Rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning Internet of Things (IoT) Virtual Reality (VR)...

Chat about how and why Ravi built his new desktop, and memories of our first computers. Why did Ravi need a new computer? When did we buy our first computers? "Assembled" computers and pirated software Famous computers at BITS - Russell's media machine How to pick parts for a modern-day desktop CPU and motherboard RAM and SSD Monitors Economics of buying a branded computer vs. building it How long does it take to research and build one Breakdown of the cost Our current work and home setups...

This week we have  our first special guest, Sri Atluru (SPIDY), who joins us to discuss about the iPhone event, Apple Pay and where Apple is going in general. We end this episode with a 20 minute long Tollywood ramble about new  and upcoming releases. (Disclaimer: All the comments in the end about actors/directors are made in a lighter vein, please don’t consider them as personal attacks on anyone.) Dhruv buys iPhone 6 and his initial views on the device Spidy follows up with his views on iPhone and App...

Topics: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ Would Steve Jobs allowed this mutiple screen sizes? Android Comparisons Galaxy Ad Move from Apple to Android Guide Apple Pay How is the authentication done? How much difference does it make? Does Paypal need to really fear this? Paypal ad Apple Watch Some thoughts on the spectacular intro video Thoughts on this new category and Apple’s approach to it Aagadu Expectations and some lackluster music by Thaman (as usual) Ai Some though...

In the fourth and the first episode since the beta launch, we thank the audience for their support and clarify couple of questions/concerns from the audience. iPhone 6 Release Coming Tuesday the rumour mill is ripe that Apple is going to release their next version of iPhone and iWatch Dhruv discusses some of the features which Apple is rumored to release in this release. iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack Last week, an infamous celebrity photo hack has been the point of discussion by both mainstream m...

Saavn, the Spotify for Indian music that Ravi has great things to say about. Owning vs. Streaming music - What do we prefer? Where are we heading?   What is virtualization? How does this relate to cloud computing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of virtualization? A brief history of virtualization Major players in server virtualization - ESX, Hyper-V, RHEV and Xen An intro to storage virtualization and network virtualization Top three providers of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Downsides of cloud Future of...

In this episode, Ravi and Dhruv discuss the buzzword-ridden and often confusing term 'Cloud Computing'. What is cloud? Why is everybody talking about it? Watch this guy explain "Cloud CDs" and what happens to them when it rains. Isn't my home computer good enough? How about a server? Why do I need cloud? Is the cloud model good or bad for small consumers? What is the difference between public cloud and private cloud? What is IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service), PaaS (platform-aaS), SaaS (software)? Why did ...

In the first episode, Dhruv and Ravi kick things off by introducing themselves and talk about podcasting - their favorite podcasts and why they started this one. The discussion turns to Kickstarter, LeBron's move to Cleveland and American sports in general. Links from the podcast: Telugu Tharanga, a podcast we found. Kickstarter, a site that lets you raise money for your products Hanselminutes, a podcast that we love. LeBron's move to his old team, Cleveland Cavaliers. You can find us on Twitter at @gumma...