-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you discover that you're balancing your checkbook in octal.
...you discover that you're balancing your checkbook in octal.
Related:
- You know you've been hacking too long when
The
set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about
themselves.
These include the following: not only do you... - You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you wonder why you can't just go:
sleep 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 can remember your ethernet hardware address... - 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 enclose comments in your class notes with "/*... - 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...
...in your universe,
`round numbers' are powers of 2, not 10...
From the same category:
- The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning
wanting to change your name and start a new life in different city.
Vance Bourjaily,... - Piltdown:
the pig that made a monkey out of a man..... - Arnie: "In my country, we lined all the drug dealers and drug addicts
and shot them in the back of the head."
Fellow cop:
"Nah, that wouldn't work here. Too many politicians... - How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more
a man than they?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review... - Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys.
Lazarus...
