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Copying here an interesting comment on the video from user @melkiorwiseman -

Fun Fact: The first step-by-step switch and indeed the very first automatic telephone exchange was invented by Almon Strowger. Almon Strowger was an undertaker by trade. He became convinced that the manual telephone exchange operator, who was the daughter of the only other undertaker in town, was deliberately directing all calls for "the undertaker" to her father's practice instead of dividing them equally between the two as was standard practice at the time. Strowger decided that he needed to invent a way for telephone customers to dial the number themselves and used cut out pieces of paper to represent the electrical contacts so that he could work out how the equipment should work. If I remember correctly, Strowger was granted a patent for his automatic telephone exchange in 1929. Strowger's exchange required two extra wires from the exchange to each telephone to carry the dialling signals, but some clever lateral thinking allowed for using the same two wires for nearly all signalling as well as for speech.

I am not as smart as you but still after spending a decade in industry learned few things on my way.

- your job can'not satisfy you always. There are good jobs and bad jobs. But good job can become a bad one in overnight. Nothig is permanent. So don't get attached to it, instead love your craft.

- the software domain is the easiest one to experiment. Having a computer and internet is enough to build whatever you want. If you wanna have kick by writing good code, just get it from your own project.

It is not about only Vim as editor but Vim as keybindings too. Nowdays, most of all modern IDEs support Vim keybindings along well integrated IDE features.

I would highly recommend 'Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning'

I don't know what is the last time you used linux but lately there is great improvements in user experience. I know non-techie people using Linux Mint/ubuntu without any hassels.

network programming

socket programming

100% agree with this. As a solo dev or freelancer things are different than as team member.

With 12 hours time difference, it is better to have separate team in India who can colloborate with offshore team on bi/weekly basis.

separate config, codebase, media files and other stuff

- config using dot files (may be some remote git repo)

- projects in git repo

- media and other stuff in different drive

Everytime you make changes in config or projects, push them to remote repo immediately. This way, you will be always ready to upgrade.

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

In human body, new cells are created every day which is not case with elastic band. Best anology could be economy. If you keep creating wealth and not spending one day you reach your limitations. Continously churning and creating gives boost to economy.

I found asian philosophies very interesting in this regard. There is an interesting Hindu philosophy about 4 states - awake, sleep, dream and turiya. In below video, lecturer explained them very beautifully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGKFTUuJppU

Also you might enjoy Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid where author tried to explain self-referential systems.

If you pick up any interest in asian philosophies, try https://www.amazon.com/Who-Am-Sri-Ramana-Maharshi/dp/1537599... and https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-That-Nisargadatta-Maharaj/dp/089...

Also, Don't have a romance at office

> The offshore team is isolated from the company, all of its storied century of knowledge (in this case), about engineering, materials, machining, quality, certification, aerospace, systems, it goes on and on.

In company as big and old as Boeing,many teams work isolated and independently. I don't belive knowledge gets shared that easily. Also what I read about Boeing culture (I forgot where but reddit ama I guess), it was declined way back.

Blaming the problem on $9 offshore engineer really look bad on company. I have worked with $5 engineers as well as $100 engineers in past. As long as you don't have proper verification proess both can screw the system. I blame it on company executives who sidelined safety altogether.

Agree with this. And as day passes, pressure gets built to finish work and if you don't, you can't enjoy remaining day & night. At least with office setup, once you leave it physically, you also leave it mentally but with work from home setup that is not possible. Still it is good to have wfh option for emergencies. so yeah mix of both.