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Cube & Cubicle

Anand Reddy Pandikunta — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:35:37 GMT

Rubiks Cube

When I was in college, I was traveling to a friend's place and missed bus at midnight. The next bus was at 4 AM. While I was bored waiting for the bus, I found Rubik's Cube in a shop.

I scrambled the cube and spent the next 4 hours trying to solve the cube. I managed to solve one color. When I tried to solve the next color, the pieces in the previous layer started missing.

Even after spending a lot of time in the next 3 weeks, I couldn't solve it and gave up.

After a couple of years, when I "learnt" about the internet, I searched and found simple algorithms to solve the cube. Within a few days, I was able to solve the cube in a minute.

Office Cubicles

In the final year of college, there were placements. When I was preparing resume, I included "I can solve Rubik's Cube in a minute" in it.

During the interview, interviewer asked me if I can really solve the cube in a minute. He asked me to get my cube and show him during the lunch break. I did. Luckily, I got hired.

Even though, I was hired for Wipro I didn't join. I went to Bangalore and started applying for start-up jobs.

I went for an interview at a web development company in Malleswaram, Bangalore. The CEO looked at my résumé, took out a cube from his desk. He handed the cube to me, showed an empty cubicle behind me and said, "If you solve the cube in a minute, that cubicle is yours."

Just by learning the cube, I was able to land a job an at an MNC(Multi National Company) and a startup as well.

PyCon India 2015 - First PyCon Experience!

Anand Reddy Pandikunta — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:03:00 GMT

PyCon India 2015 was my first PyCon as an attendee, speaker & volunteer.

When I first heard about PyCon in BangPypers meetup, I thought PyCon India is just like a big meetup with a little bit of planning & preparation. But by the end of conference, I have realised that organising PyCon is a very very huge task. It needs a great deal of preparation, planning up things and dedicated volunteers who are interested and patient enough to spend lots of time to run it.

Nicholas Tollervey was keynote speaker. He came to venue on October 1st(two days before conference) and helped volunteers with some tasks. He did the same on next day too. I was wondering whether he came for key note speaking or volunteering.

I have been talking to many people on mailing lists, github and other channels. Finally I was able to meet & talk with many of them in person.

I was not able to attend all sessions but many people said this

It was good to see some of 2nd & 3rd year B.Tech students, who were familiar with django & were contributing to many upstream packages. Some students were even using Emacs as their editor.

Toddlers were also interested to attend PyCon

I have planned to make Python logo mosaic with rubik cubes. I thought it will take ~10 hours to complete it. When I got there with cubes, Vignesh U, Apoorva, Ram Mohan, Sayan Chowday and many other volunteers came forward and completed it in an hour.

I was eagerly waiting for PyCon India from past few months. PyCon India was just like a cool breeze! Ah...!!

Update:

How the hell did I forget about swag kit marathon?

Day before conference, we had to prepare swag kits for participants. I don't know whose idea it was to prepare it like this, that but it was brilliant and most fun part.

My Tribute To Relecura!

Anand Reddy Pandikunta — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 07:54:00 GMT

tribute (ˈtrɪbjuːt) noun

A gift or statement made in acknowledgment, gratitude, or admiration.

" Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. "

- William Arthur Ward

More than 100 days of have passed since I joined INDUS Techinnovations and I am pretty excited to be a part of this company. I thought of doing something for our company.

So, I brought some Rubik Cubes and made a mosaic.

Rubik Cube Mosaic of Relecura Logo!

*Thanks to Sreenivas, George, Nikhil and all our team.