Jon Skeet is a programmer at Google, author of C# In Depth and Internet legend from his participation on Stack Overflow. After his meteoric rise to fame, a question was posted to gather Chuck Norris style facts about Jon Skeet. There are currently 291 answers, here are few that made me chuckle!
- Jon Skeet is immutable. If something’s going to change, it’s going to have to be the rest of the universe.
- Jon Skeet doesn’t have performance bottlenecks. He just makes the universe wait its turn.
- Users don’t mark Jon Skeet’s answers as accepted. The universe accepts them out of a sense of truth and justice.
- Anonymous methods and anonymous types are really all called Jon Skeet. They just don’t like to boast.
- Jon Skeet does not use revision control software. None of his code has ever needed revision.
- When Jon Skeet’s code fails to compile, the compiler apologises.
- Jon Skeet is the traveling salesman. Only he knows the shortest route.
- When Jon Skeet points to
null,nullquakes in fear. - Jon Skeet coded his last project entirely in Microsoft Paint, just for the challenge.
- Jon Skeet can believe it’s not butter.
- Jon Skeet can code in Perl and make it look like Java
- Jon Skeet codes only with final sealed methods. No one has ever needed to override any of Jon Skeet’s code.
- Jon Skeet programs in binary, then compiles it into human-readable code.
- Jon Skeet can make IE obey his CSS rules.
- Jon Skeet can divide by zero.
- Jon Skeet has already written a book about C# 5.0. It’s currently sealed up. In three years, Anders Hejlsberg is going to open the book to see if the language design team got it right.
and my personal favourite:
- Jon Skeet can recite π. Backwards.
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