[hlurhhh]

I like her because she's one of the very very few 'famous' women in tech who's not Alexa or Siri (https://www.fastcompany.com/40547212/people-were-asked-to-na...).

Running companies and being featured in Vogue? Iconic.

[tardo99]

Do some reading for f*'s sake. Take a look at this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

Marissa is a fake computer scientist. There are real female computer scientists out there, and very good ones at that.

[amaranth]

The woman with a masters in computer science is a fake computer scientist?

[tardo99]

Sigh. Regurgitating stuff you read is very different from being someone who actually knows how to build things. I don't think Marissa even pretends to know how to code at this point. I think in the past she did pretend to, which was sort of a problem.

[hlurhhh]

> I don't think Marissa even pretends to know how to code at this point. I think in the past she did pretend to, which was sort of a problem.

I don't know what your problem is with her but holy shit I'm pretty sure she can code.

[sfblah]

Prove it.

[hlurhhh]

She has a masters in CS and was google employee #20, how about you prove she can't. You got some beef with her too, huh?

[hlurhhh]

Don't tell me to do some reading for f*'s sake, I know about Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper. Mayer is current, successful, and stylish. I like her. I'm trying to explain to you why there might be a 'cult of personality' around her.

[jhwang5]

Why is being stylish so important in this context? If she were not stylish or conventionally attractive, does that detract from your opinion of her?

[hlurhhh]

Being stylish is super important (to me) because not only is she a woman in tech - she's a stylish woman in tech. I hate the typical tech uniform of jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies, but felt I wouldn't get taken seriously if I looked 'pretty'. Marissa made that ok for me.

If she wore the typical tech uniform it wouldn't detract anything for me, but she wouldn't be iconic to me.