You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Are Looking At An ASCII Core Dump Of Your OS Project Which Has Many O's And &'s In It (among Other Things), And You Shou

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you are looking at an ASCII core dump of your OS project which has many
O's and &'s in it (among other things), and you shout:
"I see the problem. Orcs are attacking my demons."

You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you count things on your fingers in binary.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're looking for your hilighter and you think
find . -pen HiLiter -pri...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...that home project you thought would only take a single weekend has now passed its first decade of development.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wonder why you can't just go
leep 28800& and go on with your hacking?...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you ask archie where to find your keys.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin all of your questions with "INPUT.
. ....
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you can remember your ethernet hardware address.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you discover that you're balancing your checkbook in octal.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Are Looking At An ASCII Core Dump Of Your OS Project Which Has Many O's And &'s In It (among Other Things), And You Shou

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