You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...in Non-computer Related Situation You Start Thinking That Whatever You Are Doing, It Could Be Done More Easily In A Shell Script.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...in non-computer related situation you start thinking that whatever you
are doing, it could be done more easily in a shell script.

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... ...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 wake up and desperately try to start a compiler so you can use the 15 minute waiting period to sleep some more.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you order on the phone from a catalog, and start to give the operator your email address.
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 wish you could study for an exam by executing the command
cat civ100 | tee brai...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you're doing laundry, and you think
ouch * <or> make clea...
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... ...in Non-computer Related Situation You Start Thinking That Whatever You Are Doing, It Could Be Done More Easily In A Shell Script.

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