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These are written in the third person so as not to disrupt the style of the thing. But hey, as we all know, Jon Skeet can make 1 == 3 anyway, so it makes no difference.
When Jon Skeet's code fails to compile the compiler apologises.
– IsmailS
Aug 5 '10 at 11:06
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.
Jon Skeet can recite π. Backwards.
Jon Skeet once answered one of my questions 42 seconds before I asked it. It is my belief that he employed a super computer and Infinite Improbability Drive technology to achieve this result.
When Jon Skeet points to null
, null
quakes in fear.
Donald Knuth wears a "Jon Skeet is my Homeboy" t-shirt to show off at parties.
Jon Skeet is the traveling salesman. Only he knows the shortest route.
Jon Skeet can make the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs.
Jon Skeet took the red pill and the blue pill, and can phase-shift in and out of the Matrix at will.
Jon Skeet has root access to your system.
The Dining Philosophers wait while Jon Skeet eats.
Jon Skeet knows the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, both African and European.
Jon Skeet has more "Nice Answer" badges than you have badges.
Jon Skeet saved the Princess.
Q: Can Jon Skeet ask a question that even Jon Skeet can't answer?
A: Yes. And he can answer it, too.
If Jon Skeet posts a duplicate question on StackOverflow, the original question will be closed as a duplicate.
JONBERT appears courtesy of:
Jon Skeet can believe it's not butter.
Some Chuck Norris quotes translated in Jon Skeetish lingo:
If you have 10000 reputation points and Jon Skeet has 10000 reputation points, Jon Skeet has more reputation than you.
There is no 'CTRL' button on Jon Skeet's computer. Jon Skeet is always in control.
The only time Jon Skeet was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake.
From the comments of the accepted answer:
From the blog post "Stack Overflow Is You"
“Stack Overflow is you.” I knew that already :) What, you’re saying it’s other people too? Hmm… ;) ]
And some original ones:
Jon Skeet does not run his programs. He just whispers "you better run". And it runs.
Jon Skeet codes only with final sealed methods. No one has ever needed to override any of Jon Skeet's code.
Jon Skeet LINQs all things
Jon Skeet does not "Abort, Retry, Ignore". Ever.
Jon Skeet is a BSOD in himself: Best Stack Overflow Definition.
Jon Skeet only solves NP-awesome problems.
Jon Skeet is IntelliSense:
'Jon Skeet' + CTRL+SPACE
. The answer is displayed immediately.'Jon Skeet' + CTRL+SPACE
: the question you actually wanted to ask writes itself.And of course:
Jon Skeet has performed the following feats on Stack Overflow (yes, in real life):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/284797/hello-world-in-less-than-20-bytes#284898 (10k+) post has been deleted.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/140376/what-easter-eggs-have-you-placed-in-code#140507
What's a good algorithm to determine if an input is a perfect square? (see comments)
The Jon Skeet badge is awarded for posting a better answer than Jon Skeet. Only Jon Skeet can earn this badge.
God said: 'Let there be light,' only so he could see what Jon Skeet was up to.
Superman wears Skeet pajamas to bed!
F1
key, the computer asks for help from him.Ctrl+Alt+Delete
, worldwide computers restart is initiated. The same goes for format
.AIDSTest 1.1
written by Jon Skeet, mobile phone users can now test them selfs for the HIV virus by a simple SMS. Anonymity Guaranteed!7NF
) for database normalization IS Jon Skeet.<JonSkeet>
tag.delete JonSkeet;
in C, the Apocalypse will come.Open Source
. He just doesn't want to close it.FAT to NTFS
.void JonSkeet();
#include
. He thinks of it as cheating.When 2 shows up, it is a nightmare.
a reference to this: bash.org/?60523 ?
– Time Traveling Bobby
Jul 18 '10 at 21:53
In a page margin of Jon Skeet's copy of the book on the Riemann hypothesis is the note:
"I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
.NET uses Just-In-Time compilation because every instruction must first be approved by Jon Skeet
There simply is no Halting Problem within a 10-meter radius of Jon Skeet, because computers are rightfully afraid to halt in his presence.
Jon Skeet has proven the Continuum Hypothesis, but has agreed not to share his discovery with the world until leading mathematicians recover from the shock.
Jon Skeet is beyond Turing-complete; he is Turing-invincible.
nVidia plans to triple the processing power of their newest videocards by bypassing their GPU pipelines entirely and offloading the vector operations to Jon Skeet over instant messenger. And those graphics benchmarks will improve further still during those intervals when Jon is actually awake.
Skeet is now a verb. To be skeeted: The act of attempting to answer a Stack Overflow question only to find out that Jon Skeet has already answered it definitively and much better than you could have done.
Jon Skeet once fixed a production problem in his pajamas. How it got in his pajamas, I will never know.
Only Jon Skeet earned the coveted "Jon Skeet" badge:
Jon Skeet badge http://uvshock.co.uk/badges/badge.php?label=I%20am%20Jon%20Skeet&medal=gold
When Jon Skeet codes a far JMP, the assembler asks, "How high?"