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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you are trying to remember something but hear in your head
  parity error at address......
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're hacking on a project late at nigh
  you are trying to get at some munchies, and you are having problems opening them (fingers stay in keyboard mode) and you think...
• 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 almost get hit by a bus that pulled away from the stop without looking and you say
  PANIC: bus erro...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
• SYSTEM ERROR: press F13 to continue...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're reading from paper media and when you finish the page you press the spacebar.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...in art class you make a mistake in a drawing and look frantically for the undo button on the paper.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...even Juan Valdez couldn't support your drastic need for yet another cup of coffee.