Comments on: IMVU is 3d avatar chat; it’s also a pride-inducing piece of software engineering.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:07:06 +0000

i love what u did i thought that this article was the bomb

By: Unfollowing Coding Horror on Twitter

Unfollowing Coding Horror on Twitter — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:32:45 +0000

[...] reading the Jeff Atwood’s arrogant post on IMVU’s brilliant technical success’s, reading this was the final straw in clicking the unfollow [...]

By: Worthy of Praise - Push cx

Worthy of Praise - Push cx — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:30:51 +0000

[...] I guess that would sting more, if not for this rhetorical piledriver from another proud IMVU engineer: [...]

By: mcgrue

mcgrue — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:48:07 +0000

Whoa. I got y-combined: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481579

The comments there are overwhelmingly positive. I’m pleasantly surprised, because I’d assumed Atwood’s opinion would be in the majority case.

Sometimes the stereotype of the software engineer as the Simpson’s Comic Book Guy overrides the truth that professional software engineers trend towards being thoughtful and able to think about the other side of a presented opinion. Thanks for reminding me, guys.

By: Joshua Emmons

Joshua Emmons — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:08:49 +0000

To quote Fake Steve out of context:

“This idiot has been so consistently wrong for his entire career that we use him as a contrarian indicator.”

He was talking about Dvorak, but Coding Horror fits just as well.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:32:24 +0000

Jeff is being a bit of a dick here. IMVU’s deployment system is fantastic, and I can’t see how he could dismiss that because of the application it is supporting. Surely that is beside the point? Are all of our technological advances supposed to come from cancer research?

By: Hates_

Hates_ — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:25:44 +0000

Just because your not working on the cure for cancer, doesn’t mean you can’t be proud of your work or do an amazing job technology wise. 99% of tech bloging is probably written by people doing anything but curing important diseases.