Interview with Jon Skeet
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Interview with Jon Skeet
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#3As 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 university. Jon must be a similar age to me, so I'm guessing he also was one of the first to take GCSE's after the UK switched from the 'O-level' (1990-1991).
Great little interview. Thanks for sharing @eddie_31003.
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#4This 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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#5I'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
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#6I'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
Jon Skeet is a frequent contributor to StackOverflow.com[0], where he is known for being able to answer highly obscure questions with equally obscure answers[1].
[0] http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
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#7I'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
Stack Exchange has a convenient list:
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts
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#8I envy the way he manages to balance all commitments in his life. Pretty amazing.
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#9I'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
Jon Skeet is a frequent contributor to StackOverflow.com[0], where he is known for being able to answer highly obscure questions with equally obscure answers[1]. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtractin...
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 Stack Overflow is very interesting or meaningful, of course. :)
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#10I'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
He has also written an excellent C# book, C# in depth http://csharpindepth.com/ .