WHOA: Mark Zuckerberg's Little Sister Ariel Just Got Rejected By Y Combinator(sfgate.com)
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WHOA: Mark Zuckerberg's Little Sister Ariel Just Got Rejected By Y Combinator
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/18/businessinsidery-combinator-arielle.DTL
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""I once asked her to enter a long long list of names into an excel document. Arielle came back and asked me if it was alright if she wrote a program to do it automatically...at which point i told her she should just do what she thought was best at all times," says one of Zuckerberg's former colleagues."
That made me giggle... Any programmer would do that:
That made me giggle... Any programmer would do that:
echo "Name,Age"; tr -s ' ' ',' < list.txt
Name,Age
John,19
Carl,34
Pedro,56(Is that "WHOA" needed? I understand it's in the original headline, but having it in all-caps on the Hacker News homepage is slightly annoying.)
Anyway, I don't find this strange at all. If I was going to guess who, if anyone, would be objective and focus only on merits, I'd put pg and Y Combinator near the top of the list.
Anyway, I don't find this strange at all. If I was going to guess who, if anyone, would be objective and focus only on merits, I'd put pg and Y Combinator near the top of the list.
"On sheer clout alone, the pair seemed like a shoo-in."
I don't think the author is familiar w/ Y Combinator.
I don't think the author is familiar w/ Y Combinator.
This is like the relative of a famous celebrity (or scientist) not getting into an elite school and admitting some part of their application - essay, scores, whatever - wasn't as well as it should have been.
Am I the only one insulted by this article? If anything, it's also irresponsible of SF Chronicle of sticking both of these girls in the limelight. Imagine if she wasn't Zuck's sister; should your rejection somewhere be published in a major newspaper?