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What a great guy. I know immediately when I see with his name on a Stackoverflow answer that it's authoritative and can be trusted (which is a lot for Stackover
by nathancahill 10y ago
What a great guy. I know immediately when I see with his name on a Stackoverflow answer that it's authoritative and can be trusted (which is a lot for Stackoverflow, especially when you've exhausted the manual and the source code).
- bbcbasic 10y agoJon Skeet is another great guy for this
- pavanred 10y agoI used to do .Net programming a few years back and I used to love Jon Skeet's answers for any .Net question on SO. Precise, informative and simple explanations. It's been a few years since, but if I remember correctly, it was an interview of Jon Skeet on an episode of Scott Hanselman's podcast where he spoke about reading the C# spec, and as a young beginner in programming I loved that advice because when I did read the spec, I was pleasantly surprised, perhaps naive, that all the information I needed to learn the language was right there, available for free when I thought I had to purchase books etc. to learn more. :)
- metaphor 10y ago> when I did read the spec, I was pleasantly surprised, perhaps naive, that all the information I needed to learn the language was right there This...I couldn't place enough emphasis on it. If I could attribute a single factor which has had the most impact in differentiating my performance vs. peers who were hired around the same time, it'd be a philosophy of setting aside time to study specs in detail and keeping up with them.
- weavie 10y agoRainer Joswig is similarly legendary for Common Lisp. I once thought a good way to really learn the language would be to answer some Stack Overflow questions. Not once have I managed to get to a question that he hasn't already answered - and in much more detail than I ever could.