Nice looking plot, but looking at May 2015 who is hiring post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 I coun

Nice looking plot, but looking at May 2015 who is hiring post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287 I count 7 occurences of ninja, 2 of them is in the username/email of the poster , so the real count is 5 , here are the 5 : - Looking for an aspiring Rails ninja, with 5+ years experience - Why be a ninja when you can be a pirate? - so if you don't fit the standard Bay Area "ninja rock star programmer" mold - great! - Play - You'll want a paddle at your desk to fight off incoming table tennis balls. Ninja backhand required. - Our team is ready to expand, and welcome a new developer with ninja-like coding skills a... So 2 of them actually ask for a "Ninja", 2 of them specifically ask for NOT a ninja, and one of them ask for a ninja in ping-pong. So I'm not sure how accurate the plot is overall. EDIT: Looking manually for "Ninja" in the posts from January to May 2015: Jan : 0 / 334 comments Feb : 1 / 643 comments March : 1 / 680 comments April : 1 / 952 comments The only occurence is always the same post, downvoted, or asking if it is a joke, otherwise it's "No ninja / brogrammer/ rockstar" . That same post over time represents a smaller and smaller percentage of the number of comments (Assuming 1 comment = 1 job offer)