[AceJohnny2]

I'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

[bgc]

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...

[unwind]

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. :)

[flurdy]

Has Jon Skeet reached one million yet: http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com Not quite this year, but soon.

(Ps, add your own id to see when you reach it: http://www.hasjonskeetreachedonemillionyet.com/155689 Mine is in quite a few years)

[ygra]

Oh, yay, in 2046. I guess I should start answering a few questions again.

[egil]

He has also written an excellent C# book, C# in depth http://csharpindepth.com/ .

[AtmaScout]

Yes, this book is a great one. It makes it easy to understand many of the topics.

[pcmonk]

Stack Exchange has a convenient list:

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts

[CmonDev]

Most good C# answers on the best dev Q&A website. Without working for Microsoft.

[barrkel]

He was well known as an MVP on the C# newsgroups at MS before SO started, too.