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I'm vaguely aware of Jon Skeet from echoes from the Windows dev world, from which I've largely stayed detached. Can someone explain the significance of Jon Skeet, preferebly in terms of "Facts" in the style of Bruce Schneier's [1] or Jeff Dean's [2]? [1] http://www.schneierfacts.com/ [2] http://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-facts
As a fellow Brit and as someone working in C# everyday, Jon Skeet is somewhat of a personal hero of mine. I can't count the number of times I've turned to StackOverflow and found the answer to have be written by him. Chappeau! Interestingly we appear to have had similar paths to get to our careers. I too started off with BASIC and the BBC B Micro. I then went on to study Computer Science at GCSE, A-Level and then at…
Out of curiosity from a non-native speaker : does the double-p makes it more idiomatic for native English speakers ?
I'm guessing this is what they mean by a 10x programmer? :-)
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts
I thought that Google engineers weren't allowed to use Windows.
This guy has always impressed me. He works on Java at Google and spends a large chunk of time being a C# and .NET expert. Obviously C# and Java are semantically close to the point of nearly interchangeable, but the devil is in the details and he seems to have them down.
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He's also, kind of, known for being the top user in terms of reputation points. It's a little like there's Jon Skeet, then there's nothing for a while, then there's somebody else. His average reputation increase per day is often more than 300. Of course, 200 is the typical "cap" on daily increase, but somehow he Skeets around that. He'll probably reach a million points this year. Not that I think reputation points on…
Has Jon Skeet reached one million yet: http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com Not quite this year, but soon. (Ps, add your own id to see when you reach it: http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com/155689 Mine is in quite a few years)
I thought that Google engineers weren't allowed to use Windows.
Google produces some software for Windows - e.g. Chrome. How did you think they did that if they weren't allowed to use the OS?
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Science Fact: Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions [0]