Feelings of regret over career path?
rick2047: I dont know about the others but I do feel just like you. I had also posted something like this here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=824178.And about philosophy I think every true hacker is a philosopher in its true sense. Hacking is in my opinion a type of philosophy of living. Philosophy can be summed up to being investigation of questions and also analysis of the answers. And every hacker does just that. And even if the questions are not exactly about life, but hacking is philosophy in its own right.