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Googirl - Marissa Mayer

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God, that article has the worst pagination ever.

it was like repeating which floor of the parking deck you're on early in the morning only to forget come afternoon

Looks better in links. :)

Agreed. They definitely should have had some visual cue in the bottom nav showing where you were. The page num in the article tools didn't cut it.

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

Yeah, it happens with Leah Culver and a number of other women in technology as well.

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.

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.

Nice article about an interesting person. Inventive, full of energy; qualities I wish I had. It's interesting to see how she started as a software engineer (like me) and ended up as a VP. I can't see myself making that same jump although it's interesting to see how someone else did.

Wish I was smart enough to go to Stanford.

Look at it this way: the first million was probably almost enough to cover her student loans.

Works hard at image, not substance.

Printer friendly version: http://www.sanfranmag.com/print/node/6516

article runs 13 friggin pages...

not quite reader friendly... this is the best design they could scare up in san fransisco?

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.

Very painful, but a good read.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Marissa Mayer has 99.999% uptime and a multi-core personality

My theory, being google and all, there's actually a distributed cluster of her.

Wall of text.

gag.

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