Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by corn_dog on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:29AM (#18725685)

As much as I like Scala I find that hard to believe. I actually look for Scala in the job listings and I never felt it came up that much, compared to say Python or Javascript. A dumb search on the page for scala mostly turns up scalable ...

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Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by twoquestions on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:31AM (#18725702)

Ditto with Rust, most of the matches are part of the word "trust" when using ctrl+f in Chrome.

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Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by vram22 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:32AM (#18726298)

This is one reason why we need regexes (to name just one point) in browser and other search. I've said before in other places that Gmail could benefit from an SQL-like query language, for example. So could many other web and non-web apps. Google search too. One potential issue is excessive load on the servers if it gets used a lot, though.

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Re:Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job... by stygiansonic on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:38AM (#18725772)

As others have mentioned, it’s possible the analysis was done through straight string matching; would know for sure once the code is open sourced.

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