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**Telugu Bytes**

A podcast in Telugu about technology, programming, music, movies, life in the Bay Area and other stuff. Find us at telugubytes.com and twitter.com/telugubytes.

Latest Episodes:

018 - Baahubali : The Future of Telugu Films Nov 23, 2015

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We discuss the success of Baahubali and discuss if it can change the way Telugu films are produced and marketed.

Ticket prices and the "range" of Telugu films
Baahubali's production and financing
Remunerations of Telugu film stars
Collections and fan wars

017 - Baahubali : The Rise of Rajamouli Jul 22, 2015

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We chart the rise of SS Rajamouli over the years, from Shantinivasam to Baahubali.

Shantinivasam
Student No. 1 and the years of obscurity
Simhadri
- Intensity
- Inspirations from Braveheart
- Dialogues and dramatization
Sye
- The villain
Chatrapathi
- Utilizing Prabhas
- The interval block
Vikramarkudu
- Sleaze in the first half
- Titla
- The mass appeal
Yamadonga
- The pre-interval scene
- NTR's transformation
Magadheera
- His best story?
- Periods of sustained drama
His influences, inspirations and claims of plagiarism
- Simhadri : Singamalai scene - Braveheart
- Sye : Coach pep talk - Any Given Sunday
- Chatrapathi
- Magadheera : Om Shanti Om?
- Magadheera's original story
Maryadaramanna
- Purpose
Eega
- Story and VFX
- Surprises
Baahubali
- Culmination of his learnings
- Craft
Rajamouli vs. Competition
- Top 5 directors in India
What's next for Rajamouli?
- Meluha trilogy
- Mahabharatam
What makes Rajamouli Rajamouli?
- Personality traits
- Forever the learner
- Lessons
Conclusion

016 - Baahubali : Exploring the Epic Jul 16, 2015

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Dhruv and Spidy (Sri Atluru) attempt a review of Baahubali.

This episode is full of spoilers. Please watch the movie before you listen. Please!
We sometimes slip into English during the conversation. It's not deliberate. Excuse us.
We sometimes refer to celebrities (cast and crew) in the singular (athadu, vaadu). This is purely because it's a casual conversation between friends. We mean no disrespect - we love and adore them!

How we liked the movie
Talk from the audience
Announcement, budget, marketing and expectations
Spidy's favorite scenes from the film
Dhruv's favorite scenes from the film
Character introductions
How songs fit into the film
Post-interval block
War scenes
da Vinci's chariot design
Prabhas and Rana as Baahubali and Bhallaladeva
Anushka as Devasena
Ramyakrishna and the character of Shivagami
Senthil's cinematography
VFX - The waterfall and the fort
Keeravani's outstanding music and background score
Tidbits and trivia
Flaws
Reviewing the reviews
Looking forward to Part 2

015 - What's Up With Twitter Jul 07, 2015

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Dhruv and Ravi's take on trips and planning
Dick Costolo is stepping down as CEO of Twitter
- An employee's farewell letter
- BBC's worst CEOs of 2014
TWTR stock price in the last three months
What is Twitter?
- Microblogging service or a social network
- Montly Active Users (MAU)
- Twitter vs. Facebook MAU
Chris Sacca's open letter - What Twitter Can Be
1 billion people have tried Twitter, but most don't stick
Is the onboarding process broken?
Are they slow to execute?
What can Twitter do?
- Become a protocol - or is it too late?
- Focus on 'Live'
- Mine tweets for deep insights
Who should be the next CEO?
Will Google buy Twitter?

014 - Apple WWDC 2015 Jun 29, 2015

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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

013 - Google I/O 2015 Jun 05, 2015

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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

012 - A Really Expensive Fitness Tracker May 22, 2015

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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

011 - Spring Forward Mar 13, 2015

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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.

010 - Programming Interviews : Part 2 Mar 01, 2015

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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

009 - Programming Interviews : Part 1 Feb 22, 2015

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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.

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