Interviewing DMs on twitter is research?
Whats wrong with looking at CS textbooks and see when the topic became common?
Whats wrong with looking at CS textbooks and see when the topic became common?
It's also possible (likely, even) for the time that a topic starts showing up in textbooks to be different from when it starts showing up in job interviews.
> While reviewing this post, my friend Alex Koppel suggested another idea: comparing how much the corresponding language manuals talk about memory manipulation. In retrospect, that’s a much better idea than trawling Usenet posts. I just didn’t think of it at the time, probably because I was already trawling Usenet to understand the job market. That’s a good research lesson: don’t over fixate on one primary source.