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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wake up and desperately try to start a compiler so you can use the 15 minute waiting period to sleep some more.
• 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... ...you're trying to get to sleep but can't because you don't know the right VMS logical--you keep typing SHOW LOGICAL *SLEEP* and never get anything bu
  SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name *SLEEP*...
• 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 find out that you can't get to sleep
  because you are, in fact, the program you're designing, and can't run to completion as the lower level routines haven't been coded yet....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you go to lunch and there are no forks at the cafeteria, to which you exclaim
  fork(): no more processe...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your children do something they shouldn't do
  you tell them to stop, they do it just once more anyway, so you think "Well, they prefetched the instruction and are executing it in the delay slot....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you mourn the death of GOTO and spaghetti programming more than your dead fish.