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Yes. You also may have missed the part where the author describes trawling through forum posts from decades past in an attempt to gather data on past hiring practices in addition to today's.

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.

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Sure it will, about the time it takes students to get into interviewing roles.

Just to head off any speculation about the reasons I didn't study CS books, it's 100% because I Just Forgot

> 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.

Nice, will you extend or amend your research accordingly?

Yep! Probably not immediately (this post was a writeup of research I did in 2019), but it'll happen. I also want to dive Byte Magazine archives to see if they have anything interesting to say, too.

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