I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.
EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these facts.
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Sign up to join this communityI'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question.
EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these facts.
Jon Skeet mentioned my name in a comment and my reputation went up.
"Jon Skeet" is the Internet come alive. It's a cover name for all the world's computers forming themselves into a massive grid & amusing themselves on StackOverflow. His name is an anagram of "Net's Joke" - how obvious could it be?
Jon Skeet can reopen closed question on SO :)
Jon Skeet can execute an infinite loop in 1.55 seconds - that's how long it takes for him to simulate a universe from birth to heat death.
When Jon Skeet scribbles something on a napkin, it's encoded in UTF-8, well-formed XML, and is an ISO standard. He does not need to request for comments.
The truly serious hacker should consider learning C#, not Lisp. Because Jon Skeet wrote a book on C#.
When Jon Skeet writes once, it does run everywhere. Regardless of the language.
Jon Skeet uses butterflies.
Jon Skeet reads your e-mail.
Jon Skeet can make IE obey his CSS rules.
Jon Skeet writes poems. In Assembly.
Jon Skeet's comments compile and run as expected.
All of a CPU's ALUs and FPUs can be replaced by a singe JSU (Jon Skeet Unit).
When Jon Skeet calls a method, it fires, even if it doesn't exist. The C# team noticed this, and added the dynamic keyword into C# 4.0...Originally it was going to be called the jonskeet keyword.
Console.WriteLine(typeof(System.Object).BaseType);
Output:
JonSkeet.System
i earned almost all of my reputation just by answering questions with "See Jon Skeet's answer"
Jon Skeet once wrote a switch-statement back in the 80s. He hasn't written one since because it's still serving all his switching needs, and yours too, had you only access to it.
When Jon Skeet stands up from his chair and walks over to the printer, his pyjamas creates enough static electricity to power a city. Too bad he never needs any print-outs.
Jon Skeet can easily and leisurely read 400 words per minute, write 40 lines of code per minute, play chess in his head, build a server from three C64s, juggle 7 oranges and repeatadly refresh his browser window, all at the same time, in perfect time slices of 10ms per task. (And yes, the oranges freeze in mid-air when Jon Skeet switches context, although it happends so fast, it looks perfectly smooth.)
Jon Skeet has 2 keyboards so that he can type at full speed on one while the other is cooling down.
Jon Skeet's desktop background is a picture of his desktop background. You wouldn't understand it even if you saw it.
Do you know why there's a shadow under your mouse cursor? Jon Skeet has hidden a small camera under it, so that he can see what you're clicking on.
A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister walked into a bar... and Jon Skeet is going to find out why...
Jon Skeet's wisdom is so profound that when he answers a question about C#, the world's accumulated knowledge about everything else increases by 50%.
Jon Skeet's keyboard has only two buttons: 1 and 0
Q: Jon Skeet once challenged Jon Skeet to a coding contest. Who won?
A: Jon Skeet. Twice.
Jon Skeet fixed PC Load Letter. ^
Jon Skeet doesn't write answers in response to questions, he writes the answers then waits for the question to be asked.
Jon Skeet can bit-shift in 3 dimensions, not just left and right, but up/down, and forward/back too!