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soc340 | 3 years ago | on: Diving into GCC Internals

Gives me PTSD to my operating systems class in university. Once upon a time I knew how a linker actually worked under the hood, but those days are long gone.

soc340 | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you cope with realizing you mostly wasted your potential?

I feel the exact same way. I'm a computer science student at Stanford. I only decided to study CS in first year of college, since it seemed like a safe bet to good money and I enjoyed math.

2 years later, I'm just an average CS student working at big tech. I don't particularly find my work fulfilling and I don't impress anyone.

Every day I question whether I made the right decision to study CS and become an engineer. Like you, I know I'm smarter than the vast majority of people and I was an academic talent when I was little (through high school).

I don't know what I'm doing with my life.