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You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long... |
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You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When...
You dial the
wrong number on your phone and look for "undo". When you don't find it,
you grumble about how primitive the phones are.
You complain
that your alarm clock is "inflexible" and "worthless" because it can't
sync with your calendar and automatically know when to wake you up.
You're
looking through the videos at the public library, and you do a sudden
doubletake. "Yeh, cool, I didn't know there was a video about the
CPAN." Then you realize it's CSPAN archives." (This actually happened
to me.)
You know more IP addresses off the top of your head than
phone numbers. You know the ISO country codes for nations you can't
locate on the map. You've never met most of your friends in person.
You
catch yourself using computer commands as words in nontechnical
conversation, such as, "Is that still under warranty? I'll have to grep
the filing cabinet and see if I can find the purchase order." You
arrange the contents of your (physical) desk drawers hierarchically,
like a filesystem.
You've had dreams in a programming language.
You
want to develop a standard for where Post-It sticky notes should be
attached relative to the contents of a document, so that the results
can be wellformed and easy to parse.
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