Miscellaneous Collections

Miscellaneous Collections

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you send your SO notes like
while !(together(you,me)) miss(you)...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you stare blankly at the screen and your fingers type "rwho" without any help from your brain.
...you get tired of screens full of worthless inform...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start doing stuff like: cc -o a.out foo.c
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start doing stuff like THIS
emacs a.out (an even worse version of this is "cat >a....
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming code.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming in Tetris and trying to rearrange the furniture so it all fits neatly against one wall.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start reading car license plates as machine code.
JMP 451, HCF 919 (this one really shook me up), HLT 772 (Halt instruction...gotta reboot the ...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stop
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.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...

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