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WhitneyLand on Sept 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius ...

Save your time - we already know reputation and pedigree sometimes get in the way of the best decisions being made.

Srinivasa Ramanujan was dismissed as unqualified many times, as was Michael Faraday, and many others.

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