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

15 points| jv2222 | 16 years ago |techzinglive.com

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[+] mwcremer|16 years ago|reply
Hmm, so why point out gender, especially when combined with superlatives? Kind of undercuts the effect.
[+] hy3lxs|16 years ago|reply
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.
[+] johnnybgoode|16 years ago|reply
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.
[+] jv2222|16 years ago|reply
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?

[+] khangtoh|16 years ago|reply
And remind me again why there's a Wikipedia page on her?
[+] parse_tree|16 years ago|reply
because she's an awesome female coder.