Jon Skeet

Reading, United Kingdom

csharpindepth.com

Age: 35

Author of C# in Depth.
Currently a software engineer at Google, London.
Usually a Microsoft MVP (C#, 2003-2010, 2011-)

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Email: skeet@pobox.com

@jonskeet

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Allow an edit to notify downvoters: “I think I've fixed the issue now - please check”

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147 votes

Curious null-coalescing operator custom implicit conversion behaviour

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C# 5 async CTP: why is internal “state” set to 0 in generated code before EndAwait call?

c# asynchronous c#-5.0 asked Feb 17 '11 at 10:55

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111 votes

Performance surprise with “as” and nullable types

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104 votes

“View standard site” option for mobile devices?

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87 votes

Self-instigated rep recalc

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85 votes

How can I take more control in ASP.NET?

.net asp.net .net-3.5 viewstate asked Jan 10 '09 at 16:44

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75 votes

How does the C# compiler detect COM types?

c# com compiler c#-4.0 asked Jul 7 '09 at 17:01

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72 votes

What would you want to see in a Stack Overflow API?

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68 votes

Project management to go with GitHub

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Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

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Jon Skeet Facts

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Try-catch speeding up my code?

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int a[] = {1,2,}; Weird comma allowed. Any particular reason?

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In C#: Math.Round(2.5) result is 2 (instead of 3)! Are you kidding me?

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Different results with Java's digest versus external utilities

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Structure Vs Class in C#

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Creating a byte array from a stream

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Creating a comma separated list from IList<string> or IEnumerable<string>

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using LINQ to remove objects within a List<T>

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Are “while(true)” loops so bad?

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