Jon Skeet
Who is Jon Skeet and Why is he so famous?
The answer is simple, Jon Skeet is a senior software engineer currently at Google. He is a C# legend, won the Microsoft MVP award several times and also a Java developer, he actually writes Java at Google.
Jon Skeet became famous on StackOverflow (#1 programmer resource for finding solutions to problems) and he has maintained the position of being the all-time #1 answerer to programming questions asked on StackOverflow. He has helped millions of programmers by providing quality, descriptive answers to their programming challenges.
Now, let’s get to it. I’ll ask a second time. Who the hell is Jon Skeet? Asked by a Programmer on StackOverflow.
- When Jon saves a file, the file thanks him.
- When John Skeet does a search on Google.. the only result is “I’ll be right back”.
- John Skeet returned IntelliSense and got his money back!
- The only time Jon Skeet was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.
- Jon Skeet’s heart rate is 5 GHz.
- When you search for “guru” on Google it says “Did you mean Jon Skeet?”
- Jon Skeet does not sleep…. He waits.
- There is no ‘CTRL’ button on Jon Skeet’s computer. Jon Skeet is always in control.
- Jon Skeet has written the best programming language. Its source has just one command… void JonSkeet();
- When Jon Skeet throws an exception, nothing can catch it.
- Jon Skeet is beyond Turing-complete; he is Turing-invincible.
- Jon Skeet is the only top 100 SO user who is human. The others are bots that he coded to pass the time between questions.
- When Jon Skeet’s code fails to compile the compiler apologises.
- Jon Skeet can recite Pi Backwards.
- When Jon Skeet points to null, null quakes in fear.
- If Jon Skeet posts a duplicate question on StackOverflow, the original question will be closed as a duplicate.
- When Jon gives a method an argument, the method loses
- Drivers think twice before they dare interrupt Jon’s code