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• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your alarm clock goes off, and in your dream you try vainly to figure out what keyboard command to use to turn it off.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you regularly sit up and stare at your (ringing (loudly!
  )) alarm clock thinking, "I can't shut it off because if I do the error message will scroll off the screen and then I won't be able to figure out what went wrong....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you look above the television for a title bar to find out the name of the program you are watching.
• 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 almost get hit by a bus that pulled away from the stop without looking and you say
  PANIC: bus erro...
• lop n. 1. A one-sided fudge factor, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• lop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for error but in only one of two directions.
  For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet long and have to guess when you cut it, you make very sure to cut it too long, by a large amount if necessary, rather than too short by even a little bit, because you can always cut off the slop but you can't paste it back on again....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you want to compile busy traffic so that it will run faster.