新奇事件簿 臉譜網向15歲神童伸出橄欖枝

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Tech giants Facebook and Google are in competition to attract the talents of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak sparked the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a game called Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since its launch in October.The addictive game managed to climb higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store charts. Pasternak has been invited by Facebook's internship department for a tour of the company's headquarters in California. He is also being wooed by Google, whose vice president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their future developers.

臉譜網和谷歌正在為一名15歲的應用開發(fā)員而展開了激烈的競爭。本-帕斯特納克，這名15歲的澳大利亞青年曾經設計了一款名叫Impossible Rush的游戲應用，之后兩家公司都對他產生了興趣。自從這款游戲在10月份發(fā)布以來，下載量超過了50萬次。沒想到這款應用程序的人氣居然超過了蘋果商店中的短視頻應用Vine和交友應用Tinder。 臉譜網站的實習部門邀請帕斯特納克來到了加利福尼亞的總部進行參觀。谷歌也對他伸出了橄欖枝，其副總裁還邀請他來參觀他的校園。兩家公司都希望帕斯特納克能夠成為他們未來的開發(fā)人員。

Mr Pasternak is one of 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT sponsored event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries across the world. They willcollaborate on a 36-hour project to create a sellable product. They will also listen to featured speakers from the technology and hacking world. Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and clearly ambitious. He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that:"[Pasternak's] iPhone app was extremely impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was run by a 15-year-old."

帕斯特納克也是450名高中年齡企業(yè)家之一，他們都參加了由谷歌和麻省理工大學承辦的名叫“黑客Y一代”的項目。這些高中生來自全世界各個國家。他們將通力協(xié)作，并在36小時之內創(chuàng)作出一款能夠銷售的產品。他們也將參加來自技術和黑客世界領軍人物的演講。邁克爾·馬蒂斯是這項活動的組織者，他說：“帕斯特納克是一名年輕的企業(yè)家，非常有志向。他向全世界證明年齡只是個數字而已。”他還說：“他做的蘋果手機應用讓人印象深刻，如果讓我們猜的話，我們絕不會想到這是15歲男孩做出來的。”