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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... ...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.
• 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... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you start dreaming code.
• 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... ...a fly lands on the screen and you try to pick it up with the mouse and put it in the onscreen trashcan!
• 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 have been hacking X and the colors of your tv don't look right so you think maybe you should use a different Visual.