TL;DR and not for the weak hearted, please don’t start reading this until you are willing to put efforts into changing the way you deal with online subscriptions. Childhood Fun Since my childhood I was taught by my cousin brother (Karan) on how to utilize the amazing peer to peer network named torrent we used to keep our systems running late at night to just download a video game, dark ages I know. ...
Competition happens at the bottom. People at top are collaborating. I read these words on Ravi’s status and immediately it hit me as something I have tried to pursue since my very first month in college. Collaboration has been a key factor in my overall mental well being aka happiness throughout my career and overall life advancement. Enough with Competition After going through 3 years of JEE coaching and having participated/succeeding in about all of the competitive exams including IJSO, RMO, KVPY, IChO, and JEE Advanced, I decided to put my foot down on competing. ...
Gold Plated Products Gold Plated Products is what am calling products/services that get offered as free or for unlimited usage to get numerous people onboarded on it. After a while either they will add a paywall for complete service or some premium features which were previously free are now only available if you pay. The issue begins when there is a lack of information provided to users of when the paywall or premium offering will become active. The Product Managers just wake one day and decide to choose violence, boom the paywall goes live. ...
Legion of Legends (LoL) Hey! We’re a small team of passionate people with a common goal to build India’s best browser ever! All of us are IIT BHU graduates and are currently working in different fields of software development. What unites us, you ask? It’s our passion to survive on coffee and code for tens of sleepless nights! :P Shivansh Saini My journey in the tech industry began with the founding of my own startup, a food tech venture called Checkin, where I played a pivotal role in building end-to-end solutions. From developing the Android app to crafting the RESTful backend and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines on the Google Cloud Platform, I gained invaluable experience across the entire software development lifecycle. ...
It was time to return back to campus after partially recovering from the tragic happenings of 09/26/2022. Detouring from Marudhar My dad came to drop me over for registration in December. We took the infamous Marudhar Express from Jaipur to Varanasi Junction in 2AC oblivious of what was about to unfold. The compartment was shaking too much for some reason I couldn’t even sleep and my neck started hurting badly. It was just so painful that Papa and I decided to just drop at Agra Cantt Railway Station only. First thing, I vomitted then we took a cab to some hotel, I ate something and again vomitted so slept on empty stomach. ...
End of an Era I was a student at FIITJEE Jaipur since class 10th for 3 years. I devoted myself to one goal cracking JEE so that I could work on computers. I was fascinated by Excel, operating systems, browser scripts, video games and more. I was able to clear many competitive exams throughout the journey but let’s begin with the day of JEE Advanced. As usual, my father dropped me off at the exam centre Anand Engineering University with the necessary stationery and some chewing gums. I went for paper 1, took a good nap in the car under the shade of a nearby tree during break and then gave my paper 2. ...
I recently graduated from LFX Mentorship Program. In this blog post, I will be sharing my experience of contributing to Vitess, a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. What is LFX Mentorship In the exact words of the Linux Foundation, The Linux Foundation Mentorship Program is designed to help developers — many of whom are first-time open source contributors — with the necessary skills and resources to learn, experiment, and contribute effectively to open source communities. By participating in a mentorship program, mentees have the opportunity to learn from experienced open source contributors as a segue to get internship and job opportunities upon graduation." ...
Why we need our Campus? Do you remember? Do you remember waking up early feeling that morning 🌅 breeze🍃 on your way to the examination centre where you probably gave the most crucial examination of your life? Making through those two years of constant efforts, strenuous days, full of ups and downs. All that for what a subscription to online classes? Do you think the admins are aware of what struggles we went through to make it into the prestigious institution📜 named IITs? I am aware you all have heard this multiple times, and yes, you all agree, so why hasn’t anything changed yet? It is probably because we have lost hope facing numerous denials for our request from the Mussolinis and Hitlers of our institution. ...
Abstract Chapel is a programming language designed for productive parallel computing at scale. It simplifies parallel programming through elegant parallel programming constructs. As Chapel can utilize a system to its fullest potential, it seems like one of the ideal solutions to handle millions of network requests. Currently, we can do network programming by using C Interoperability, but those constructs are not intuitive and good enough for users to easily do their tasks. ...
Microsoft is like a dream company for many people me included :P. Why won’t it be its the company which develops typescript making web app development so much easier, VSCode favourite IDE of all developers 😌, Azure Cloud Services, Windows the first Operating System that most people use. The Process Included two parts the Coding Round and then Interviews, based on which students were selected. While Coding Round was eliminating Interviews were not, so everyone was able to give 2+ interviews. ...