Jon Skeet Facts

Question

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.

Now with official sanction from the powers that be!

Answer 1

Top 10 Programming Languages (Iobe Programming Index)

1. Jon Skeet
2. Java
3. C
4. C++
5. PHP
6. (Visual) Basic
7. Python
8. C#
9. Perl
10. JavaScript

Answer 2

Following on from everyone's awesome collection of facts, how about this one - ready for the Dev Day talk...

• Jon Skeet can deliver an hour long talk, complete with slides and sample code in 1 second.

Answer 3

Jon Skeet can constrain generic types to Enums.

Answer 4

Every time you pop something off the stack, Jon Skeet gets a nickle

Answer 5

Jon Skeet made an application which programs and ask questions on SO itself, so he doesn't need to anymore.

Answer 6

• The Industrial revolution didn't happen by itself, Jon Skeet made it happen!
• Little known fact: before it was called DarpaNet, it was called SkeetNet
• Sun Microsystems is really a shell company for Skeet Inc.
• The JVM does not stand for Java Virtual Machine, it stands for Jon's Virtual Memory!
• The Turing test has been passed, ask Jon Skeet!

Answer 7

Jon Skeet does not need stack traces. He sniffs the call path.

Answer 8

People sometimes cite Jon Skeet's use of computer-generated circles as evidence of his imperfection. This is of course a silly mistake stemming from Jon's ability to draw a perfect circle freehand (video link, >1 min long, a bit on the loud side).

Answer 9

Jon Skeet doesn't annotate specs: the specs are written to conform to his annotations.

Answer 10

• Windows actually "works" on Jon Skeet's computer.
• Breaking news: "NASA has removed all firewalls from its server and stuck a picture of 'Jon Skeet in gown'(available in SO) on it"
• Jon Skeet does not move the mouse, the pointer knows exactly where to go when he touches it.
• Jon Skeet once developed an operating system using a calculator during a morning jog

Jon Skeet can do this:

public void foo(){
    final int notsofinalhaha = 10;
    notsofinalhaha * 50; // don't even doubt that...
}

Finally, a non-tech one...

When he does push-ups (yeah he does just for fun)... he doesn't come up... actually, the Earth goes down humbly ;-)

Answer 11

• Jon Skeet never forgets his TPS cover sheet.

• Jon Skeet can smell new programmers.

  Jon Skeet: *Sniffs the Air* New Programmers!

Answer 12

Hugh Everett is wrong. There is only one world and that's the one Jon Skeet chooses.

Answer 13

1. he already is a posthuman
2. he is the singularity

Answer 14

When Jon Skeet marched to the bottom of The Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, the Evil Wizard was OUT, NEVER TO RETURN. The amulet had been left on the floor with a note warning monsters not to touch it, and a profuse apology to Jon Skeet for making him go the trouble. When Jon Skeet returned to the surface, Trebor thanked Jon Skeet for retrieving the Amulet and asked Jon to keep it. Trebor then handed over all of his equipment and most of his gold to Jon.

Answer 15

Jon Skeet never disappoints; only disappointment gets disappointed, if Jon Skeet says so.

Answer 16

2454866 JDN does not mean "Julian Day Number", it means "Jon Skeet Day Number"

Answer 17

Code name of JavaScript is JonSkeet.

Answer 18

Each time Anders Hejlsberg prepares a draft spec for the next version of C#, he submits it to Jon Skeet for review and approval.

Answer 19

Jon Skeet decides when a program halts.

Answer 20

The concept of Ignorance itself has congealed, become corporeal and conscious just to flag all of Jon Skeet's Stackoverflow answers as offensive.

But Wisdom has responded by removing the flag and raining down a golden shower of up-votes.

Answer 21

John Skeet is Dr Manhatten's smarter brother!