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Interviewing DMs on twitter is research? Whats wrong with looking at CS textbooks and see when the topic became common?
by sorokod 6y ago
Interviewing DMs on twitter is research?
Whats wrong with looking at CS textbooks and see when the topic became common?
- mandelbrotwurst 6y agoYes. 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.
- sorokod 6y agoSure it will, about the time it takes students to get into interviewing roles.
- hwayne 6y agoJust 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.
- hwayne 6y agoAuthor here. Why wouldn't interviewing DMs on Twitter be research? I'm getting "oral histories" from a bunch of different people and comparing them for common patterns. It wasn't the only thread of research I did, but it was really helpful to orient myself at the start.