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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>You know you've been hacking too long when</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Y.html" title="Y"/><link rel="previous" href="You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html" title="You are not expected to understand this"/><link rel="next" href="Your-mileage-may-vary.html" title="Your mileage may vary"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">You know you've been hacking too long when</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Y</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Your-mileage-may-vary.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="You-know-you-ve-been-hacking-too-long-when"/><dt xmlns="" id="You-know-you-ve-been-hacking-too-long-when"><b>You know you've been hacking too long when</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about
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themselves. These include the following:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>
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not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you
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remember your <a href="../N/network-address.html"><i class="glossterm">network address</i></a> faster than your
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postal one. </p></li><li><p>
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your <a href="../S/SO.html"><i class="glossterm">SO</i></a> kisses you on the neck and the first thing
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you think is “<span class="quote">Uh, oh,
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<a href="../P/priority-interrupt.html"><i class="glossterm">priority interrupt</i></a>.</span>” </p></li><li><p>
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you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing it in
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octal. </p></li><li><p>
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your computers have a higher street value than your car.
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</p></li><li><p>
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in your universe, ‘round numbers’ are powers of 2, not 10.
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</p></li><li><p>
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more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming
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language. </p></li><li><p> you see the word “<span class="quote">Oxford</span>” and mentally trip over
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the fact that ‘r’ is not a hex digit. </p></li><li><p>
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you realize you have never seen half of your best friends.
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</p></li></ul></div><p>A <a href="http://albrecht.ecn.purdue.edu/~taylor/humor/hack.html" target="_top"> list</a>
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of these can be found by searching for this phrase on the web.</p><p>[An early version of this entry said “<span class="quote">All but one of these have
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been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even
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hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer.</span>” The ringer was
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balancing one's checkbook in octal, which I made up out of whole cloth.
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Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the
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others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually
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happening, most famously to Grace Hopper while she was working with BINAC
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in 1949. —ESR]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="You-are-not-expected-to-understand-this.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Y.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Your-mileage-may-vary.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">You are not expected to understand this </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Your mileage may vary</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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