Re:Eric Lippert is leaving Microsoft
by ericlippert on Thursday November 29, 2012 @01:43PM
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I am neither high-profile nor an executive.
Re:Eric Lippert is leaving Microsoft
by ryanmolden on Thursday November 29, 2012 @02:30PM
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You're definitely high-profile amongst the engineer grunts and on various internal mailing lists. I don't know if that wins you any private soirées with Soma or not, but it's something :)
Much like the other commenters have mentioned, you're "high profile" if only because I've actually heard of you and read your writings with interest before (via the same means legions of other developers will have done so). I'll remove "exec" if I still have Edit perms though, apologies.
I've heard of you, and I'm usually the last to the party.
You're a fucking hero to some of us.
I also don't think that being signed up for a site for a longer duration of time inherently gives you any right to speak for the entire site, even in a conversation with one of relatively less "seniority" on the site (whatever that even means). It's nice that you clarified what you meant by "us" but that wasn't being debated and it didn't add to any points you've made.