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Man I hate the word rockstar in a non "rock" context.
by epi0Bauqu 19y ago
Man I hate the word rockstar in a non "rock" context.
- ardit33 19y agoI agree. It is being thrown out in every other job posting. It is getting kinda annoying.
- estherschindler 19y agoPart of what can be annoying about the "rock star" label -- other than that it's a buzzword -- is that it's now a buzzword without a standard definition. At one point it clearly meant "you, o techie, are a recognizable name and thus a brand unto yourself." But in the last few years it's come to mean "miracle worker." I got so worked up about this, some weeks ago, that I even blogged about it: http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/rockstar http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/rockstar
- ftravis 19y agoBased on the comments here, it looks like we committed a faux pas by using the word rockstar. Sorry about that. We didn't anticipate getting a negative reaction to the word. I had always conceptualized rockstar as a compliment to someone's skills, and I hadn't seen enough job ads to know that it was becoming uncool. s/rockstar/talented
- epi0Bauqu 19y agoSorry, I didn't mean to suggest you were uncool :) I certainly wouldn't know if it was cool or not anyway. For all I know, it is the coolest term out there. I just don't like the phraseology. I never have. I don't like guru, ninja, or the other ones either.
- staunch 19y ago> s/rockstar/talented Substitution replacement not terminated at line 1.
- ftravis 19y agoGood catch, I haven't coded perl since 1999. This might be more appropriate for the kind of background we want: "YC startup looking for rockstar designer".gsub("rockstar","talented") Or maybe: "YC startup looking for rockstar designer".replace("rockstar","talented") for the pythonistas.
- ola 19y agoIs "double plus good" better? Of course if it was appended with "programmer" you'd have to assume fluency in Newspeak.