Congratulations! I’m sure someone will add ‘Web’ to your award once you do something useful internet related. Maybe try writing a HTTP tool or something.
Since you seem to know some C++, could always call it the C++ URL Retrieval Library, or maybe something more pithy.
This is fundamentally an example of the "drunk searching for his keys under the street light" problem: He's getting a wildly inappropriate form of recognition because that's the form of recognition Microsoft has a system for providing.
I had a similar experience with Amazon: I'm an AWS Hero not because I really make sense as an AWS Hero -- the Heroes program lives under Marketing and is fundamentally about helping people drive more customers to AWS -- but because a couple senior engineers said "we need to do something to recognize Colin's FreeBSD/EC2 work" and the Heroes program was what Amazon had in place.
Too bad Microsoft is just a bunch of Ferengi in a trench coat.
That’s an insult to Ferengi.
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Clearly he needs to append it to an overly ornate email signature block.
I can relate. Couple of years ago I was recognized as a Python software foundation fellow. My contributions to the Python community got me the award (I organize Python Atlanta). Has anything changed? Not really. It is listed in my resume but doesn’t make much difference. It has more personal meaning than anything. Feels good to be recognized every once in a while.
Congrats, OP.
I actually got nominated for an MS MVP by Jon Skeet, years ago when I was a front page "C++ expert" on StackOverflow (before it all went pear-shaped). I had to turn them down as at the time I did zero Windows programming, though lots in the past. Jon & the MS guys seemed nice enough.
> Obviously the program people did not think I qualified for “web”.
this is just really, really funny on a bunch of levels
Reminds me of Ken in the Barbie movie:
> Actually my job, it’s just "beach"
Yeah, at least the transport layer and application layer.
Time to drop all those web features
Well, there is a threshold to get these! Even though Microsoft hand these out to a non-significant number of people it is still not an easy feat to get one.
It's a nice achievement to have. Congratulations.
Congrats on the well deserved C++ award!
It's a major award!
Is not curl written in C, lol
Looks like it is indeed. "I am of course not at all an expert in C++, but I do know my way around C. I suspect the people over there don’t care about the difference."
Somebody should write in go and call it gurl!