On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:18:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
While you're no charismatic hero by any stretch of imagination, you do carry quite some weight in what you say simply by your history of achievements, as well as your technical expertise and wealth of experience in computer-related issues. It's no surprise that in this crowd full of like-minded nerds who respect technical expertise, you're doing none too badly. It might be a completely different story if you were in a more "typical" social setting, though. :-P
Yeah, Intel's "Our rock stars are not like your rock stars" ad [1] illustrates the idea really well.
[1]: https://youtu.be/zMlWbTqwkdU (30 seconds) -- Alexander
