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Praveen and Ravi talk about the final week of Bigg Boss 4

• COVID and Bigg Boss 4
• Comparison with previous seasons
• Contestants: Sohel, Akhil, Monal, Abhijeet
• Hosting

In Part 1 of our “Movies of 2022” review series, Dhruv and Ravi review four big-star films of 2022.

• Akhanda - why it became a blockbuster
• Acharya - what went wrong
• Godfather - why we liked it
• Bheemla Nayak - why we didn’t like it

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

Dhruv ponders what a “10x engineer” really means, and interviews Chandra Kuchi, a friend of the show and Dhruv’s ex-colleague about 10x engineering aka good software engineering. They talk about motivation, communicating with the team and other teams, focus and dealing with interrupts, work ethic, communicating your efforts and much more.

As Thanksgiving approaches, Ravi and Dhruv talk about the tech they are thankful for in..... 2018. In typical Telugu Bytes fashion, we recorded this episode in 2018 but only managed to release it now. However, we still think it holds up pretty well - we talk about phones, cameras, headphones and a lot more. Happy Thanksgiving!