Ask HN: Are there any programmers working on a novel and/or series?

Thumbs up for Yakitate Japan, whoever hasn't read / watched it should immediately. Unfortunately I am not sure a similar thing can be done for programming himself. I mean what would that be like? "hehe, you'll never managed to win that hackathon, you software use way too much memory! Oh but what are you doing, instantiating your class in your export statement... Masaka!" "Sono masaka desu. SINGULUTON desu!" // main character clicks the compile button 5 second before the deadline, and thanks to his nakama optmisation of the webpack build using cache, it manages to compile in time. "So you managed to use a little trick to make your memory under the maximum allowed, but you will need more than that to beat me, the Prince of Functional Programming" // Judge arrives, try the application of the oponents, gives him perfect score as expected,then goes on to the hero. He doesn't even understand the code just by looking at it. But then as he try to open the application, he realises that actually, he implemented the form in WEBU GEE ELU, and he's blown away by the quality of the interface, giving the hero higher than the maximum score."

Scratch that, I would watch the fuck out of that show.

(initially I was gonna say it could be more about the business side i.e silicon valley but damn did that thing write itself)

That's a good goal to have.

Thanks for this. This is the first I heard of him but I did hear about 'Arrival' :)