Weak notes - I

 I closely follow this blog for tech content. He regularly posts weekly notes and encourages others to do so. I have found a lot of those weekly notes useful. Most of those notes are personal updates, but some of them are tech suggestions and lists, which I have saved up.

For long, I have been longing to post significant events in my life in my blog. But I could never really convince myself that any of those events are significant enough to warrant a public blog post. This time though, I am going to throw caution into the wind, and document my weeks on here. Nobody anyway reads these, so it should be safe I guess.

The title isn't a mistake. I read somewhere that 'Weak notes' meant that I don't have to commit myself strictly to post this weekly, and can skip certain weeks if there isn't enough content to post. Well I am not good with commitments, so here we go.

Song/Music/Track of the week

Last week, I accidentally ran into this beautiful piece of music.

It sounds so familiar to me, for some reason. Especially the part around 1:20. It is mostly just nostalgia, I must have heard it somewhere in DD Podhigai.

Another one I got through a playlist was the one below

Interviews

This week I got the opportunity to conduct some C++ interviews for a Senior role. It made me re-evaluate how much of my knowledge I have been taking for granted. Both the interviewees, stumbled on very basic questions about dynamic memory allocation in C++. The questions was "What is the need for a `malloc` and `new` operator, if all they do is, allocate dynamic memory?". Ofcourse, some people might not know this straightaway, so I thought I can ask them to execute some sample code using both of them, and have them figure out the difference. But to my shock, both didn't know how to use a dynamically allocated vector ( which I was using as a way to demonstrate the difference ). Does this question deserve to be pushed up the difficulty bucket ? Currently, it is at Easy !

ACX Meetup

Went to my third ACX meetup last week ( Sunday ). Finally I managed to shut my mouth up for the majority of the time, and let intelligent people talk. This time, the controversial topic was about Discrimination laws, Reservation, quotas etc.