Comments on: Worthy of Praise

By: Ted Mielczarek

Ted Mielczarek — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:34:05 +0000

While I can’t say I have any desire to actually use IMVU’s product (that’s ok, I’m clearly not their target market), I can appreciate the complexity of what they’re building, and the engineering processes that go along with it. Anyone who can read these posts and not come up with a more thoughtful reply than “lol they write teen dressup software” either missed the point or is just being a dick. I tend to like Jeff’s writing, but his reply to this is pretty juvenile.

By: McKay

McKay — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:18:56 +0000

Here here. I work in the credit card industry, and I think the industry as a whole isn’t the most exciting industry (I’d personally love to be working in video games, and “3d chat game for tweens” may not be the best I could hope for, but it would at least help get my foot in the door. I’d go work for them, it sounds like they’ve got good development practices), I LOVE my job. Programming is great. I love solving the problems that programming puts in front of me. I love refactoring 20 methods that are all very similar and removing 700 lines of duplicated code with one method (first class functions for the win). I love my job, if you’re a programmer and you don’t love yours, find somewhere else to work. Live!

By: ben mcgraw

ben mcgraw — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:26:02 +0000

Correction, I’m not the one who piledrove; I’m just the guy who sits next to him.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:32:04 +0000

Amen.