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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... ...in a dream, you are walking down a path (using PostScript's pathforall) and get woken up by a closepath.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you mourn the death of GOTO and spaghetti programming more than your dead fish.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you are having a bad dream (being chased by space aliens, etc.
  ) and you wake up, only to have another bad dream and realize that you are STILL dreaming, and had been dreaming you were dreaming, so you wake up again, and finally wake up once more and realize you were nested four levels deep in dreaming you were dreaming....
• 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 dream you have to write device drivers for your refrigerator, washing machine, and other major household appliances before you can use them.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wake up at 3
  00am from a nightmare, and realize the reason for i...
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your computers have a higher street value than your car.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have to put a happy face on paper, and do it sideways.
  )...