• El Capitan, the name (hint: Yosemite's half-dome)
• OS X Wi-Fi performance
• Metal on OS X
  • Possibilities on Apple TV
• iOS 9
  • Search and deep linking to apps
  • WebKit content blocker
  • WKWebView
• watchOS 2
  • Native apps
  • Possibilities
• Apple Music and Apple News

• Sundar Pichai's shoutout to the TV show 'Silicon Valley'
• Hooli, the fictitious company in the show
• Android M
  • Granular app permissions
  • Web views can share cookies
  • Google Now on Tap
• Josh Topolsky's article on Google Now on Tap.
• Google Photos
  • Competition: Flickr, Amazon Photos, iCloud photo library, Dropbox
  • Machine learning for photos
• Android Pay
• Google Cardboard (VR headset)
  • Google : RGV :: Oculus : Rajamouli

• 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 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? Ravi answers some FAQs.
• How much does luck matter in interviews?

Hopefully, we've answered the "why" in this episode. In the next one, we talk about "how" to prepare for programming interviews.

• 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 Apple

• iPhone controversies post release

• • iPhone 6+ Bendgate controversy

  • • How Apple handled it versus Antenna gate and how it compared it with Jobs epic press conference after that?

• iOS 8.0.1 botched release?

• • A disgusting Businessweek article places a blame on a middle level QA manager.

  • Spidy and Gummadi debate on managerial styles of Jobs vs Cook.

• Apple Pay

• Spidy explains why he is longing for Apple Pay and how its going to fundamentally change the payment industry.

• Tollywood

• Spidy and Dhruv weigh on the latest Tollywood’s disaster Aagadu and Sreenu Vytla

• Expectations on next week’s release, Govindudu Andarivadele.

• • Crucial film for Krishna Vamsi’s career

  • Bandla Ganesh’s epic GAV audio release speech

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 thoughts on Shankar’s next mega blockbuster

User feedback:

• Sound quality - We upgraded our equipment and made sure the sound is being picked up the correct microphones.

• • AT2020+ (Ravi’s Microphone)

  • Blue Yeti (Dhruv’s Microphone)

• Going to be more conscious about the cliches and stepping over each other. Also going to drift away more from the Q&A format and get into a more conversational style.

Links

• Apple Keynote

• Bendict Evans about iWatch

• A watch enthusiast’s review  about iWatch

• iPhone 6 review by Walt Mossberg