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• You know you've been hacking too long when The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves.
  These include the following: not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you fumble dialing the telephone, and make a stab for the backspace key [and wonder why the numbers aren't coming up 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 ask archie where to find your keys.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin all of your questions with "INPUT.
  . ....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you can remember your ethernet hardware address.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you count things on your fingers in binary.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you discover that you're balancing your checkbook in octal.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...
  you enclose comments in your class notes with "/* */...