Also (ahem), I forgot Mozilla in the post-2003 era.
Still, no matter the addenda and the crazy $1M/person-year, nowhere near even $1B.
So then HN is now the /. of the mid 201X? /. Was at its best when people in the know were finally pissed off enough to chime in and set the hooligans straight.
I passingly wrote some disparaging remarks in a github issue about the ES6 binary data strawman spec written by Dave Herman, pretty much out of my own ignorance, only to get a message from him a few months later asking for feedback on it and what I thought was wrong.
By this point I had learned more about the topic and reading the spec language and knew enough to know I had just been an idiot. I ashamedly responded with an apology and basically told him that my criticism could be ignored because it came from my lack of understanding and not a real problem with the spec.