You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you See A Sign On A Door Saying "Please Make Sure This Door Is Locked" And You Wonder If Lockd Knows About It.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you see a sign on a door saying "Please make sure this door is locked"
and you wonder if lockd knows about it.

Are you sure the back door is locked?
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wonder why you can't just go
leep 28800& and go on with your hacking?...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you see a sign near the elevator that says "out of order" and you think "sort elevator > elevator.
ew; mv elevator.new elevato...
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... ...you make a mathematical proof and try to compile it to test if it is correct.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your friends who aren't hackers wonder what happened to you.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you complain in the supermarket about your change and find out you computed it in hex.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter and you directly wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
In approaching a double door, you will always go to the one door that is locked, pull when you should have pushed, and push when the sign says pull.
Ehre's Double-Door Law...

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you See A Sign On A Door Saying "Please Make Sure This Door Is Locked" And You Wonder If Lockd Knows About It.

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