We had 2 higher education degrees, 75 hours of CS classes listened, 5 years of high-load production experience, a saltshaker half-full of confidence, a whole galaxy of multi-colored project launched, libraries written, frameworks used, StackOverflow questions answered... Also, a quart of desktop applications releases, a quart of web applications releases, a case of product maintenance, a pint of raw coding interviews passed, and two dozen tools that your employer haven’t heard about. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious programming collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the coding interviews. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an coding interviews binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
