YC startup looking for rockstar designer

Re:YC startup looking for rockstar designer by ftravis on Friday May 09, 2008 @06:36PM (#185989)

Based 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

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Re:YC startup looking for rockstar designer by epi0Bauqu on Friday May 09, 2008 @08:27PM (#186058)

Sorry, 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.

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Re:YC startup looking for rockstar designer by staunch on Friday May 09, 2008 @08:51PM (#186069)

> s/rockstar/talented

    Substitution replacement not terminated at line 1.

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Re:YC startup looking for rockstar designer by ftravis on Friday May 09, 2008 @09:23PM (#186097)

Good 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.

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