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Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by pchristensen »

ovi256 wrote: post #4

OK, she's cute, on several levels. I don't know what was more surprising, that she is a geek with style or an American with same. But the talking so fast that it's dazzling? Phleaaaaaaase. Since Xerox Parc, the trick is public domain: use twice as many words to say the same thing. Easy with practice. And a tad boring. Still, a cool motivating story. Back to hacking!

I listened to a talk she gave at Stanford and she did speak very quickly but without the "saying twice as words". She conveyed her ideas twice as quickly and got more said.

Of course, her laugh was so annoying I almost shut off the podcast even though it was interesting.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by pchristensen »

Tichy wrote: post #14

First page talks only about her looks. Wouldn't happen with a male engineer, I suppose.

Being a successful woman in tech is such an outlier that it's worth examining. Sort of like being a billionaire.

Also, she herself talked about her interest in clothing and fashion, so it's hard to knock the writer for spending time there.

The article also mentioned how Larry and Sergei looked and dressed too. Maybe it's something the readers of that magazine care about.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by Electro »

The first time I opened the page I completely missed the article.

My centre of focus was on the MIDDLE bar. I like asymmetric web pages, but the design of that website just hurts. To actually get through the first page of my article I moved my laptop right so I was focusing propelry instead of looking to one side of my screen constantly.

The article takes up less than 50% of the area of the screen, which just squeezes it out of perceptibility. So I never got through the article, I'm sure it was good or it wouldn't have been posted but it was awfully presented. Poor writer, I hope he got paid well for people being unable to read his work.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by kingnothing »

Xichekolas wrote: post #18
mixmax wrote: post #2

Printer friendly version: http://www.sanfranmag.com/print/node/6516 article runs 13 friggin pages...

The "printer friendly" version has no breaks between paragraphs for me (Firefox 2 on Ubuntu 7.10)... that happen to anyone else? So it may be friendly to the printer, but I definitely can't read it.

There are no breaks for me on Ubuntu 7.10 in Opera 9.5.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by Tichy »

pchristensen wrote: post #22
Tichy wrote: post #14

First page talks only about her looks. Wouldn't happen with a male engineer, I suppose.

Being a successful woman in tech is such an outlier that it's worth examining. Sort of like being a billionaire. Also, she herself talked about her interest in clothing and fashion, so it's hard to knock the writer for spending time there. The article also mentioned how Larry and Sergei looked and dressed too. Maybe it's something the readers of that magazine care about.

I have at other times taken your standpoint, but this article seemed rather extreme to me (I only read the first page, mind you). I don't mind comments on the looks etc - in fact I am pretty sure to have read somewhere about PGs "fiendishly good looks". I just felt they really overdid it in that article.

I would have hated the article anyway, because it is waaay to long, but the first page being only superficialities absolutely killed it for me.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by tim2 »

neilc wrote: post #12
ovi256 wrote: post #4

OK, she's cute, on several levels. I don't know what was more surprising, that she is a geek with style or an American with same. But the talking so fast that it's dazzling? Phleaaaaaaase. Since Xerox Parc, the trick is public domain: use twice as many words to say the same thing. Easy with practice. And a tad boring. Still, a cool motivating story. Back to hacking!

> I don't know what was more surprising, that she is a geek with style or an American with same. Offhand comments like that are annoying on several different levels.

Wait right there, american girls have no style. This is true!

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by aston »

Tichy wrote: post #14

First page talks only about her looks. Wouldn't happen with a male engineer, I suppose.

Eh, it's happened before. Mike Stoppelman's gotten his looks talked about on Valleywag, as has Ben Ling.

Pretty people getting called pretty: it's not sexism, it's a compliment.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by aston »

Electro wrote: post #23

The first time I opened the page I completely missed the article. My centre of focus was on the MIDDLE bar. I like asymmetric web pages, but the design of that website just hurts. To actually get through the first page of my article I moved my laptop right so I was focusing propelry instead of looking to one side of my screen constantly. The article takes up less than 50% of the area of the screen, which just squeeze…

Skinny columns are a hallmark of newspapers, mostly because they're a lot easier to read. I'm not arguing that the design was great here, but if you look at CNN's stories, they're not all that wide, either.

Re: Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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Post by Tichy »

aston wrote: post #28
Tichy wrote: post #14

First page talks only about her looks. Wouldn't happen with a male engineer, I suppose.

Eh, it's happened before. Mike Stoppelman's gotten his looks talked about on Valleywag, as has Ben Ling. Pretty people getting called pretty: it's not sexism, it's a compliment.

I usually don't mind, but really, the whole first page was about nothing else than her looks.
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