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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you regularly sit up and stare at your (ringing (loudly!
  )) alarm clock thinking, "I can't shut it off because if I do the error message will scroll off the screen and then I won't be able to figure out what went wrong....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you hit the snooze ba
  it goes off again, you hit it again and make a mental note that you can't do it much longer because your subroutine is mallocing memory each time it goes off, and soon will run out....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you see a flock of birds and try to figure out the algorithms that determine their movement.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you dream you have to write device drivers for your refrigerator, washing machine, and other major household appliances before you can use them.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you hear your alarm, but can't seem to get fully awake until you successfully page your left arm back in from swap space.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you try to ^Z out of Quattro.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have been hacking X and the colors of your tv don't look right so you think maybe you should use a different Visual.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you stop by the grocery store on your way home, and write your check out in hex.