In pg's Hierarchy of arguments http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html , "I stopped reading after x pages" is "DH2: Responding to Tone" and therefore always unconvincing.
If you read the entire library of Babel, you will find an elegant counter-argument to this. Please don't dismiss this argument until you are done reading it, or your dismissal will be unconvincing.
Maybe, but I enjoyed reading all of Steve Yegge's rant. It was informative and funny. And I don't even work for google. And it wasn't really even 10 pages long. The criticism of its length is fatuous and flippant, and not substantive.