Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (2016)

He said "after all this time", so it is probably a rather old joke.

I didn’t downvote, because frankly I don’t care that much, but Affirmative Action is quite controversial and I believe she founded one of those initiatives. I think some people might be extra sensitive to anything even slightly associated with diversity. To be clear, I don’t take issue with her, I didn’t downvote, and she seems to be an incredibly accomplished developer. That can only be applauded, in my opinion.

Watch me get downvoted into oblivion for merely offering a theory :)

The comment was only a few minutes old, so the downvotes may not have been representative of the HN population yet. It looks fine as of this moment. Reacting too fast on something being downvoted is often unnecessary, and distracts from the original point, so I often downvote such reactions.

I’ve heard him say he will often post a brief reply to get to the head of the queue then come back later to round it out.

Are you aware of https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact... ?

* Jon Skeet can divide by zero.

* Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow (SQL Server does not have a datatype large enough)

* Jon Skeet is the only top 100 SO user who is human. The others are bots that he coded to pass the time between questions.

* Jon Skeet coded his last project entirely in Microsoft Paint, just for the challenge.

* Jon Skeet can solve the travelling salesman in O(1).

* Jon Skeet does not use exceptions when programming. He has not been able to identify any of his code that is not exceptional.

* When you search for "guru" on Google it says "Did you mean Jon Skeet?"

* Jon Skeet can recite π. Backwards.

* Jon Skeet is the traveling salesman. Only he knows the shortest route.

* Jon Skeet can make the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs.

* If Jon Skeet posts a duplicate question on StackOverflow, the original question will be closed as a duplicate.

* When Jon gives a method an argument, the method loses

* When Jon pushes a value onto a stack, it stays pushed

* When invoking one of Jon's callbacks, the runtime adds "please"

* Google is Jon Skeet behind a proxy.

* 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.

* Jon Skeet doesn't use #include. He thinks of it as cheating.

* When Jon Skeet throws an exception, nothing can catch it.

* .NET uses Just-In-Time compilation because every instruction must first be approved by Jon Skeet.

* 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.

* Any function written by Jon Skeet can only return 42. Co-workers have yet to report any errors caused by this.

* Jon Skeet programs in Binary, then compiles it into human-readable code.

* 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.

* Jon Skeet's keyboard has only two buttons: 1 and 0

--Only one key surely, pressed (1) and released (0), and input is done at a fixed frequency (a la serial comms)

----last heard.. he got rid of that key too.. It's amazing what Jon Skeet can do with reflection and blinking.

* Jon Skeet's development workstation does not have a monitor. He never saw the point. In fact, the only reason he installed a video card is because the BIOS beep warning irritated his cat.

* Jon Skeet can appreciate music by opening an MP3 in a hex editor and reading it. He doesn't need a monitor for that either.

* When dragons write code they comment it with "Here be Jon Skeet".

* Alan Turing is Skeet-Complete.

* There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who think they understand binary, and Jon Skeet.

* I opened up a can of awesome the other day - it had Jon Skeet in it.

* The only reason we didn't all die of the Y2K bug was because Jon Skeet was bored on New Year's Eve and decided to fix it.

* Chuck Norris and Jon Skeet walked into a bar. The bar was instantly destroyed, as that level of awesome cannot be contained in one building.

-- ...Jon Skeet walked out unharmed.

* Jon Skeet can speak French in Russian.

* Jon Skeet can make IE obey his CSS rules.

yup, aggression is common two strange adult cats meet, not to mention when the new cat talks in a different dialect like bengals do.

With five cats, he will need six computers at least. I wonder if bengals are so warm lovers as the common african domestic cat.

Porting a Java project to C# doesn't make one a "Chuck Norris" developer. Popularity is irrelevant.

I'm not curious; I'm already aware.

NodaTime is a port. He didn't come up with those ideas. He translated Java code to C#. protobuf isn't much different, either.