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• 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 start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stop
• 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 order on the phone from a catalog, and start to give the operator your email address.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you have a photo of your SO taped to the corner of your screen and you get comments from passers-by like "Hey, neat GIF", and "_How_ many colors?
• uke /n[y]ook/ vt. [common] 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  "On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• uke: /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory or storage volume.
  On UNIX, `rm -r /usr' will nuke everything in the usr filesystem....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...the message `New mail in /usr/spool/mail/foo' becomes an NMI.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you get snail mail, and you think to your self "You have new mail on node "your_address" from user "name_on_the_frank".