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A 15 yeard old writing OS, in assembly. That's a pretty impressive feat, I think. Sometimes I envy those people who made such achievement at young age.

When I was 15, I'm not interested in learning computer programming yet. Mostly just played games, like Duke Nukem 3D or :/

Curiosly, it was a book about computer virus programming (obviously in assembly) which hooked me into coding :D

A win for SV is a loss for the rest of the world. Don't encourage this. SV is already encouraging bright people to sell ads instead of improving the world.

Nah, he's a pretty bright kid, I'd hate for his talent to go to waste.

I'd hate to see his talent wasted in medicine.

Edit: I should elaborate: it's hard to put these sorts of analytical skills to use in medicine, without banging your head against the wall. I've met some brilliant software developers who happen to be doctors. They are universally frustrated by their working environment.

That's good. It won't ever change if nobody is frustrated by it.

How preposterous. Let the kid do what he wants. I would say Medicine needs more software engineers than the other way around.