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Dhruv's thoughts on his Apple Watch Pricing - is it really worth it? Fitness trackers: Apple Watch vs. Fitbit vs. others Other features Dhruv's India trip Situation in Telangana Situation in Andhra Weather Tech scene in Bangalore Indian tech salaries vs. US salaries Web apps vs. Mobile apps for Indian startups

Thoughts on MacBook Pros and cons Looks Ports Who is it for? Competition: Dell XPS 13, Asus and Acer's ultrabooks Would you buy? Thoughts on Apple Watch Pricing Would you buy? Which one? Competition: Fitbit, Pebble What's the best smartphone in the market? Sorry for the background hiss, couldn't get rid of it completely.

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 whiteboa...

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 interv...

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...

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 anyon...

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 Expectati...

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 Hac...

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 vi...

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 clo...

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 ,...