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Internship drive season

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  April to August 2021. I sat down to write this article over the summer to capture my journey during the internship drive season. So back at the end of April, I started to leetcode again. I had first begun Leetcoding to prep for my google STEP interview in January. But that was hardly 10 days or rigorous problem-solving. Though it didn't make me capable enough to solve any question, it gave me an insight into all kinds of popular questions that are asked. To be honest, after covering a certain breadth of questions you can discover the pattern and probability of the type of questions that show up in Tests and interviews. Topics like 2 pointers, knapsack(DP),  Binary search, Trees, Maps and graphs hold the most frequent flyer miles. Anyway, I didn't practice much until April then as I was busy with the College Semester, only relying on solving the DSA weekly assignment problems to maintain my skills. In April I probably ended up solving 70-90 questions only and from May onwards
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Decathlon delivery charge scam

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  Hello, let's talk delivery charges, Today I wanted to buy a squash racquet, so I went on decathlon.in and browsed my choices. I finally found one I really liked.  it was a carbon fibre racquet with a nice wide area costing around 2400 INR, so I decided to buy it.  Product link Imagine my surprise when I added it to the cart and I was still charged for delivery,199 INR, which was shocking cuz decathlon offers free delivery for orders greater than 1499 INR.  Anyway, I thought I was mistaken so I decided to check the delivery terms and conditions :P ( Yes, we exist). It stated that objects weighing less than 2 KGs will be free.  now the racquet I was interested in weighted 165 gram as per the description page on the decathlon website, so well that dint cross the 2KG limit.  Now, it could have however crossed the volumetric limit of 2 KGs, but let's calculate that below As per the description , the face of the racquet covers  499cm2 , now if we consider the head to be a circle
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P.S. It's easy

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  Storytime  Back in April, when Compres got postponed, Jonny and I were looking for something to pass time, and in the past, we had planned to work together however something always came up and it didn't pan out. So, at last, we decided to plan something to build, something that could be used by a wide audience. We decided to sort out the metadata generated by the Practice School Allotment and convert it into an easily interpreted form, thus making the  PS allotment process a little less tiring.  Thus leading us to build  P.S. It's Easy . What is it? PS1 Responses/PS 2 responses It's a web application, which allows you to see CGPA distributions of companies that have been coming to the PS program from 2017 onwards, in an easy to read Boxplot or candlestick graph format. We have provided a CGPA range filter, a company-wise filter as well as a year-wise filter as seen below. You can infer very easily the CGPA range of companies and even get a button to read their chronicles.
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Peer to peer networking

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So I'm just starting learning about Peer- to- Peer networks. Seems like an interesting topic, excited to see where it takes me. Let's start out with scouring Wikipedia and what it has to say about P2P. -  The P2P network is based on the notion that every node in the network function both as a client and server to other nodes in the network. -    Hence there is no central server Whats an overlay network? An overlay network is a computer network that is layered on top of another network. Nodes in the overlay network can be thought of as being connected by virtual or logical links, each of which corresponds to a path, perhaps through many physical links, in the underlying network.  How does routing and resource discovery take place? All peer to peer networks have a virtual overlay network on top of the physical network topology, where the nodes in the overlay form a subset of nodes in the physical network. Data is still exchanged over TCP/IP, but in the application layer, peers ca
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Introductions

 Hi,  I'm Tanya, an undergrad from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, class of 2023.  Welcome to my blog! I plan to post content related to Computer Science, Engineering and Physics. In addition some thoughts on general issues as well. Stay tuned and I am excited to see how it goes. Fresh content coming soon!!!!!!
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