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> To quote ESR (as much as I hate doing so), "Don't just do something, stand there!"

I tried to figure out what ESR meant here and after a minute of Googling I'm guessing it's Eric S. Raymond[1]. Please consider not using uncommon acronyms on online forums, it obscures your meaning.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch12s01.html

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I hope you're complaining about "ESR" instead of "esr", because his initials, much like "rms" et al. are common acronyms, especially on online forums like Hacker News.

ESR is a fairly common abreviation. Just like RMS, K&R, SICP, BDFL, BNF, TAOCP (aka Knuth), XHR, AFAIK, and RTFM.

I'm glad you included RMS, but what about JWZ [1], GKH [2] or JGC [3] ? :]

[1] https://www.jwz.org/about.html

[2] https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman

[3] http://blog.jgc.org/

Forgot JWZ, but it's usually Greg KH, not GKH. Although either works...

JGC hasn't written any particularly well-known code.

On the flip side, we both took it in turn to forget GLS (aka The Great Quux), to say nothing of johnc.

And DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)

Yep, but don't forget KT and DMR.

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