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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | You know you've been hacking too long when The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves. These include the following: * not only do you check your email more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one. * your SO kisses you on the neck and the first thing you think is "Uh, oh, priority interrupt." * you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing it in octal. * your computers have a higher street value than your car. * in your universe, `round numbers' are powers of 2, not 10. * more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language. * you realize you have never seen half of your best friends. A list (http://albrecht.ecn.purdue.edu/~taylor/humor/hack.html) of these can be found by searching for this phrase on the web. [An early version of this entry said "All but one of these have been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even hackers may have trouble spotting the ringer." The ringer was balancing one's checkbook in octal, which I made up out of whole cloth. Although more respondents picked that one out as fiction than any of the others, I also received multiple independent reports of its actually happening, most famously to Grace Hopper while she was working with BINAC in 1949. --ESR]. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HACKING TOO LONG WHEN... |
| Specialty definitions using "YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HACKING TOO LONG WHEN...": You know you've been hacking too long when. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)59 4F 55 4B 4E 4F 57 59 4F 55 27 56 45 42 45 45 4E 48 41 43 4B 49 4E 47 54 4F 4F 4C 4F 4E 47 57 48 45 4E 2E 2E 2E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011001 01001111 01010101 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100000 01011001 01001111 01010101 00100111 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001000 01000001 01000011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001111 01001111 00100000 01001100 01001111 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000101 01001110 00101110 00101110 00101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Y O U   K N O W   Y O U ' V E   B E E N   H A C K I N G   T O O   L O N G   W H E N . . . |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0059 004F 0055 004B 004E 004F 0057 0059 004F 0055 0027 0056 0045 0042 0045 0045 004E 0048 0041 0043 004B 0049 004E 0047 0054 004F 004F 004C 004F 004E 0047 0057 0048 0045 004E 002E 002E 002E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5949552454849572594955956392363939482423537454348412544949246494841257423948161616 |
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