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diesel828
10/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
What a stupid article. This really didn't have anything to say about Mayer... just one or two examples and suddenly we can paint a picture of who she really is? Right. And that section about her manipulation of Schmidt... someone take a reading comprehension class because interpreting that segment into a manipulation of the execs is like saying hurricanes happen because god hates gays.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
07/21/09

In reply to The Workaholic Google Couple That Will Crush Your Spirit
These are the kind of people that have pre-purchased a cemetery plot and created a foundation that dispatches a technician weekly to test the ph levels and insure efficient decomposition.

-- This has been "Your Morbid Moment" brought to you by Concerned Citizens Angry At The Too Successful
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PICKLES_IN_MY_TUNA
07/21/09

In reply to The Workaholic Google Couple That Will Crush Your Spirit
They're not workaholics, they're fucking MANIC!
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NerzzleintheVerzzle
07/20/09

In reply to The Workaholic Google Couple That Will Crush Your Spirit
It's sad to think of these maniacal overachievers who are clearly so psychologically damaged they don't know when to relax. They must be scared to look the mirror and realize they are hollow shells full of nothing.
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Dave J.
07/20/09

In reply to The Workaholic Google Couple That Will Crush Your Spirit
I'm kind of proud of myself for managing to hate someone after reading a mere 20 lines of text about them. That takes real talent, real commitment.
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Lizawithazee
07/20/09

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Makes me think of this: "I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook 30-minute brownies in 20 minutes."
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ChickyOnly
07/20/09

@Lizawithazee: Guys in my high school did that all the time; it was no big deal.

My schadenfreudy belief that this woman was single and sad has been shot. Off to the Coca-Cola for this weary, despondent woman.
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BookishLookish
07/20/09

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They give each other hand jobs with egg timers. "Zack, you signed up for it! Come right now!"
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shostakobitch
07/20/09

@BookishLookish: Beautiful. Perhaps they stagger their 1 hour of sleep so that they might achieve each other's orgasm in the unconscious realm. Dream they're fucking blank cells in a spreadsheet, to the rhythm of a sine wave.

Or perhaps they just dream of electric sheep.
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i'm a bottle
07/21/09

@BookishLookish, shostakobitch: His ejaculate flowed precisely forth into her MySQL database. Nanoseconds passed and he quickly closed the source of the runnel. Genesis. A cross-platform synergy was in ascension. Taking it deeper into the index, her eyes pleading for his love --> a function that seemed to be as constant as the blinking of a carrot on a command line --> 10101010.
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judge9999
03/03/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Wow pure and simple the bitch is stupid.

Guess getting on your knees means you can place 7000 out of 7800 eh?
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Owen Thomas
03/03/09

@judge9999: Good commenters are good at all comments. Goodbye!
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random_play
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Still love her and her last-place-finishing cupcake butt. No way Larry and Sergey will ever let her leave. Otherwise, how will they decide between blue-green and slightly greener blue green?
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Vipula Kariyawasam
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
I started working from six years back normally started from 1mil. Within first month it was increas up to five mils within one our. Normally fat barning start after twenty mints working one of most power full tool to maintain health body.
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SteveR
03/02/09

@Vipula Kariyawasam: You know, I was having a conversation with a parking meter last night, and it said the exact same thing. Hmm...
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Owen Thomas
03/03/09

@SteveR: Don't feed the trolls. Just let us ban them.
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its_a_feature
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Google may indeed be a meritocracy, but you need to remember that there is more than one way to measure "merit". For example, Marissa slept with the boss and is now a high-level Google executive. Perhaps she's been measured by her ability in the sack and not her technical prowess. Of course, given the geeky nature of Larry, her only real competition in that arena was probably Rosie Palm.
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siliconvalleydropout
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
"Ah yes, the Portland Marathon, in which Mayer placed 7,074th out of 7,862 contestants. Or the Birkebeiner ski race, in which she placed dead last in the women's competition. Good students are good at all things."

wow owen this part here made me lmao
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Phyllis Nefler
03/02/09

@siliconvalleydropout: Yes, I too let out a satisfied chortle.
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ektorp
03/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Ha ha, she completed that marathon at an average pace of 15:46 per mile according to the results. Which means she flew to Portland and basically walked the 26.2 miles so that she can say she completed a marathon. What a way to demonstrate your athletic prowess. And totally not a transparent attempt to seem less girly, which is obviously bad for her image in more serious circles.
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i'm a bottle
03/02/09

@ektorp: 4:30 would be a decent time for a completely dilettantish female of her age; 5:28 is -- on similar, slightly hilly courses -- painfully slow even for the least serious runners.
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$Image of Terrafractal$ Terrafractal
03/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Not for nothing, and this may be the scotch talking, but I've found (on a smaller scale) that businesses tend to benefit from employing someone with social skills who knows how to mediate and manipulate for the sake of getting things done. Meritocracy is a half-myth. How many programmers weren't graced with an upper-middle-class upbringing and access to technology from the get-go?

That being said, the perfectionist tendencies are a little rough. I wonder if she got any C's in college...though the one guy I know who works for Google never got less than an A in anything. Maybe this is a company-wide trend and the code monkeys who make the algorithms JUST RIGHT are press shy.
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Tremonius
03/02/09

@Terrafractal: Mr Gladwell convinces us that good fortune is a product of birth order, specifically: early in the year for hockey players and just before the big bam boom for industrialists and software moguls. He goes on to cite the number of Carnegys born in the 1840s just before the Industrial Revolution and in 1955 so they'd be in school during the digital divide. It helps that you're a rich kid around a university with plenty of toys to play with.

On a different note: there are surfing competitions where I live, and they award prizes to them as happen to be sitting when the big swell happens behind them. I think all of them have to be straight A stoonts before they're issued a wetsuit.
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Wrapitup
03/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
"Good students are good at all things."

But a good student is not necessarily a good software engineer or a good marketer. There is an argument to be made that in these times of uncertainty about where the Web is headed, Silicon Valley needs intelligent people with unconventional minds. And such people are not often consistently good students.
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cellardoor
03/02/09

@Wrapitup: I still cannot get over the hiring practices at Google and eBay (perhaps the latter has loosened its standards). 10, 15 years out of college and people still care about your grades? Really? Weren`t some of the smartest minds known to mankind failures at conventional education? What about late bloomers? And as you said, unconventional approaches to life? I think working there sounds like an ungodly high school experience.
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its_a_feature
03/02/09

@Wrapitup: The "good students are good at all things" has got to be one of the stupidest things a (supposedly) smart person has ever said.

I especially love the followup indicating her lackluster placement in her athletic endeavors. I guess she wasn't a good student after all, as she clearly didn't do well in gym class.
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backseat_driver10023
03/02/09

@cellardoor: Google is pretty strict with the A's in all their engineering and R&D positions.

They are #1 so save your lecture when a strong and credible contender arrives.
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Tremonius
03/02/09

@backseat_driver10023:

They are #1 so save your lecture when a strong and credible contender arrives.

Bill Gates is a college dropout and, by taped evidence during a Microcon, a really sorry dancer. But he was great at surfing the tsunami when it came. Serendipity counts for more than grades. QED
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