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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
by omni 10y ago
> 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 http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch12s01.html
- riboflava 10y agoI 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.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoESR is a fairly common abreviation. Just like RMS, K&R, SICP, BDFL, BNF, TAOCP (aka Knuth), XHR, AFAIK, and RTFM.
- AceJohnny2 10y agoI'm glad you included RMS, but what about JWZ [1], GKH [2] or JGC [3] ? :] [1] https://www.jwz.org/about.html https://www.jwz.org/about.html [2] https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman [3] http://blog.jgc.org/ http://blog.jgc.org/
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoForgot 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.
- viraptor 10y agoAnd DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYep, but don't forget KT and DMR.