🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #75

Wishing you a Monday as fantastic as you are!

#OyoOops - Oyo's valuation went from $10B to a mere $2.4B after that disastrous funding round! It's like their fairy tale IPO dreams are slowly fading away

#AmazonFumbles - Amazon has been losing market share in India for more than three years. Quick-commerce is increasingly making inroads in the South Asian market. The top three quick-commerce firms are now on track to record annual sales of about $4.5 billion.

#GigEconomyGossip - Have you heard about Sneha? She just spent a day working as a Blinkit delivery agent and now she's a viral sensation! She's dishing out all the tea about the whole system, from making deliveries to the false info they sent her. And get this, the CEO himself responded to her thread!

#CreepyComputer - OpenAI’s voice mode for their new model unexpectedly imitated the user’s voice and screamed at them! OpenAI claims it has safeguards in place but this intelligence is totally freaky if you ask us.

#PingPongRobot - Check out this video - Engineers at Google have created a Robot that can play Table Tennis with ease.

BeepKart Lays Off Over 100 Employees Despite Recent Fundraise
BeepKart, a Bengaluru-based full stack retailer of used two-wheelers, has laid off more than 100 employees in the past few months. The move has affected more than 20% of the workforce, with employees across various verticals, including marketing, tech, product, and operations, being laid off.

MovingTech's Zero-Commission Cab Service Launched in Delhi NCR
Namma Yatri, India’s first open and community-driven cab and auto service app, has transitioned from a successful auto pilot to a full-scale launch of its cab services. MovingTech, the company behind the Namma Yatri app, has introduced its new lifetime zero-commission cab service under the "Yatri" brand in Delhi NCR. The app operates on a zero-commission model, aiming to provide affordable transportation while increasing driver earnings by 15-20%.

Google Revamps Photo Organization with New Collections Feature
Google Photos is introducing a new destination called Collections. Collections house all of your albums in one place, such as private albums and those that have been shared with you by other users. The search tab has also been redesigned with a list of suggested options like Screenshots, Selfies, and Menus.

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies Suddenly
Susan Wojcicki was a key figure in the development of Google and YouTube, serving as the first marketing manager and later CEO of YouTube. She passed away, seemingly from Cancer.

Cisco Gears Up for Another Round of Layoffs
Cisco Systems Inc. is gearing up for a new round of layoffs that could hit more than 4,000 workers, Reuters reported. The report comes six months after the networking giant let go a similar number of employees in a restructuring initiative. Cisco is heading into earnings week following several months of slow demand for its network equipment.

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Greenmask | PostgreSQL database anonymization tool

Variability, Not Repetition, Is The Key To Mastery
Mastering complex skills requires more than just repetition. Research shows that practicing in varied contexts with varied methods and task constraints leads to more robust learning. Apply this to your career and studies by introducing contextual interference, where you practice the same skill in different situations, like tennis or calculus problems. This improves the transfer of learning to new situations, strengthens memory, and helps experts extract deep principles from seemingly different situations.

What Makes A Perfect Bug Report
A checklist of the essential items to include in your bug reports. Write Bug Reports that other developers will LOVE.

Advancing to Staff Engineer: Key Principles
Focus on impact, leverage, quality work, collaboration, transparency, and reading/computer skills. By mastering these principles, newly graduated software engineers can elevate their performance and increase their chances of getting promoted to Staff.