If getting talked about is all you need, just put a naked photo of yourself holding bacon on the resume and submit it to Reddit. Being much talked about is only inherently good if you aspire to be Paris Hilton.
So what if she just happens to be a mediocre developer designer hybrid? This exposure is very likely going to be a stepping stone to a better job than she'd get without it.
Your example is about a stunt unrelated to showing qualifications. This actually shows some. It shows some history, and shows what skills were used where.
Is she a perfect ubergod? Nope. Does she smile and perfect ruby fall from the sky? Probably not. Does she probably have a good enough knowledge of rails and photoshop to do many a task? I'm guessing she could do all of 4 gigs I know of at the moment using skills she has. Are they the epitome of grand rails design, nope, but they likely fit her skillset.
Hacker News people have this very odd elitism thing going on expecting everyone to be functionally speaking manga cum laud from Stanford.
I'm not sure how you got elitism from what I wrote. I just mean that praising somebody because something they did generated some controversy is going too far in the opposite direction.
Peoples' problem with the infographic seems to be is that it isn't the perfect infographic and that she'd "just need a resume if she'd done anything of note". Hense the controversy. tptacek did a whole page comment on deconstructing it, aka, the controversy.
