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• 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... ...you start dreaming code.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...when you can't wake up in the morning because you forgot to push a return address on the stack the night before.
• 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 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 "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... ...the funniest joke you came up with over dinner has the punch line
  "But what if it was in hex?" ...and the people you were with also thought it was funny....
• Riker: "Deanna, I don't know if you can hear me, I've, I've heard doctors say that even when someone's in a coma, they may be able to hear when people talk to them.
  But it might help, to stimulate the brain...speed healing....