Interview With Awesome Female Coder, Corrinne Yu, 3D Engine Lead, XBOX HALO

http://techzinglive.com/?p=111

by jv2222 • 17 years ago

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yangyang• 17 years ago

Without the useless link page: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/08/microsoft_confirms_corrinne...

mwcremer• 17 years ago

Hmm, so why point out gender, especially when combined with superlatives? Kind of undercuts the effect.

hy3lxs• 17 years ago

I've worked with Corrinne in the past, and I for one do actually think she is awesome. She's one of those engineers that lives and breathes her work. We'd be eating lunch and then out of nowhere she'd exclaim things like, "HEY GUYS check out the REFRACTIONS in this CUP OF ICE it's so BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED!!" and then she'd go back to her desk and try to hack it together.

jv22223• 17 years ago

In the world of coders (where males far out-number females) I think it is a very interesting fact that the lead developer of the halo 3D engine is female.

It's not something you see every day. That's why I put it in the title. I thought the point of creating a title was to highlight the interesting aspects of a story?

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

You put her name in the title. That should be enough.

yalurker• 17 years ago

There is absolutely nothing interesting about a developer being female. Nothing.

Quite frankly, it confuses and disappoints me that anyone would think that gender matters enough to call attention to it. We're not in the 1950s, let's stop with the notion that it is a big deal when a woman does something that mostly men have done before.

johnnybgoode2• 17 years ago

Yes. Intentional or not, "Awesome Female Coder" kind of implies that female coders are not expected to be awesome, which, ironically, is probably exactly the opposite of what the OP is trying to communicate.

jv22223• 17 years ago

No one is Awesome by default. We all suck when we start out. No one is "expected" to be awesome - be they male or female. So I don't see how "Awesome Female Coder" implies that females are not expected to be awesome.

khangtoh• 17 years ago

And remind me again why there's a Wikipedia page on her?

parse_tree• 17 years ago

because she's an awesome female coder.

Interview With Awesome Female Coder, Corrinne Yu, 3D Engine Lead, XBOX HALO

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