YC startup looking for rockstar designer • Hacker News Board

Re: YC startup looking for rockstar designer

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Post by ftravis » Sat, May 10, 2008, 1:23 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #20

ftravis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> s/rockstar/talented Substitution replacement not terminated at line 1.

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.

Re: YC startup looking for rockstar designer

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Post by babul » Sat, May 10, 2008, 1:47 AM UTC

I think the term "rockstar" should be banned here (unless you are a rockstar, in which case, er, can I have your autograph).

Re: YC startup looking for rockstar designer

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Post by ola » Sat, May 10, 2008, 2:02 AM UTC

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #5

Man I hate the word rockstar in a non "rock" context.

Is "double plus good" better? Of course if it was appended with "programmer" you'd have to assume fluency in Newspeak.

Re: YC startup looking for rockstar designer

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Post by randomhack » Sat, May 10, 2008, 8:53 AM UTC

ftravis wrote: post #16

randomhack wrote: post #8

I designed my own rockstar in rock-band. Do I qualify?

Can he play drums? I'm ok at guitar and my partner can sing, but we're really looking to balance out the team.

As it happens, he only knows drums and sucks pretty bad at guitar and singing.

Re: YC startup looking for rockstar designer

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Post by redorb » Sat, May 10, 2008, 11:00 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #18

noelchurchill wrote: post #12

A YC startup created an account only 3 hours ago?? user: madscientist created: 3 hours ago C'mon what are ya trying to hide by creating a new screen name?

He's legit. He created a new account because people could have figured out the startup from the old one, and they're saving the news of YC funding for the announcement of some new features.

another value of being a y-c funded company; PG will go to bat for your even in forums ;) (granted it is his forum)