It's not the same game at all. A single purpose piece of code does not have the same considerations as a large software application. It's more like one is speed chess and the other is actual armies on a battlefield.
Clickbait title. This is in the context of competitive coding, which is a very specific and constrained programming exercise with a time limit. Which is not at all comparable to real world software development.
I taught at an English school in Osaka for a couple of years in my 20s and ended up getting told that in Japanese I sometimes sounded like a little kid because I taught a bunch of kids classes and picked up some language from them. I'm a 6'4 Australian man with a very deep voice.
I've worked as a developer in government software and it is a fucking shitshow from top to bottom. I would not trust any piece of government built software with anything remotely important. Which is terrifying.
The insane thing is that just when the story seemed to be converging into some kind of climax, with most of the major players seemingly moving towards coming together to face the threat of the White Walkers, suddenly he opened everything up again with whole new narratives and characters and everything spreading out again. I have no idea what he is thinking.
Interesting that you liked Quicksilver, that's usually the one that Stephenson fans find hard to read (I personally love it).