I had that realization when I emailed the creators of Erlang [1]. In my mind they were like these rockstars and I was some plebe groveling at their feet, so I was amazed when they replied back extremely politely, fairly quickly no less.
It made me realize that fundamentally these are just people, people generally are helpful and nice, and they also like hearing positive things said about them. It was a good lesson to learn at a fairly young age.
[1] To be clear I was extremely polite, no criticism was tossed their way!
It made me realize that fundamentally these are just people, people generally are helpful and nice, and they also like hearing positive things said about them. It was a good lesson to learn at a fairly young age.
[1] To be clear I was extremely polite, no criticism was tossed their way!