You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you're Replying By Hand To A Letter And You Suddenly Realize That You Have Written Out Huge Chunks Of The Original Letter With A Greater Than Symbol At The Start Of Each Line

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you're replying by hand to a letter and you suddenly realize that you
have written out huge chunks of the original letter with a greater than
symbol at the start of each line, so you think you should edit it a bit
to avoid getting flamed for including too much of the original post!!

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 send E-mail and end each line with \n.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after writing a big report, you try to backspace in a pen and paper letter.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you try to bring a window to the front of something, then you realize that "something" is a Post-It (tm) on your screen.
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 start dreaming code.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you match each
( with a :-) to keep the parentheses balanced....
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you "woke up" this morning and thought, "I'll checkpoint here, snooze a bit more and then revert to checkpoint.
A while later you go up another consciousness notch and realize that you hadn't checkpointed successfully - -- "Oh, of course....

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you're Replying By Hand To A Letter And You Suddenly Realize That You Have Written Out Huge Chunks Of The Original Letter With A Greater Than Symbol At The Start Of Each Line

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