There's only one rock star, Ajay Bhatt. Proof below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLPHrCQr2I
That isn't Ajay Bhatt. That's an actor. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/intel_a...
:( So sad
What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
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Re: What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
#72It's just semantics. The term rock star was involved in the recruiting process of my current job, and those who used it included a great hands on CTO and a CEO with above average tech knowledge. I had no illusions as to some kind of huge salary or RIAA like treatment. It's cliche, yea. But sooner or later you'll miss out on a great opportunity if you run away when you see "rock star".
>It's just semantics.
It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this happen to any other programming languages people?
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#73It kind of reminds me of another fad where someone was equating hackers to painters. Oh wait.
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#74I think "douchebag manager."
This. I find it is frequently accompanied by a non-trivial degree of condescension and complete and utter lack of understanding about how what they're trying to build would actually work.
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#75It's just semantics. The term rock star was involved in the recruiting process of my current job, and those who used it included a great hands on CTO and a CEO with above average tech knowledge. I had no illusions as to some kind of huge salary or RIAA like treatment. It's cliche, yea. But sooner or later you'll miss out on a great opportunity if you run away when you see "rock star".
>It's just semantics. It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this happen to any other programming languages people?
Yeah. I don't know how "words mean things" came to be regarded as a counterargument to anything.
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#76What I think of when I hear "Rock Star Programmers"? I think how most musicians, signed to a major label , who perform as "rock stars" still get a net zero payoff after two years. I think how if programming degenerated to the level of music or motion pictures, the average programmer would labor for nearly nothing in a start-up "hoping to be discovered" while handful got a fake buy-outs with no long term money and a m…
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#77Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)
The graphics in this article is very misleading. The first three salary values are average values from SimplyHired.com while the last value for rock stars is the "average salary for the top 10 best paid music stars". If you use the same criteria to search for the last category (rockstars), you simply find an average salary of $54,000, not $50,000,000. http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-(rockstar+OR+%2... Th…
Rock stars not rock musicians in general.
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#78I've always felt like going to a "rock star" job interview with dyed blue hair in a mohawk, ripped jeans, chains, black string vest, black nail polish, black eye liner, leather jacket, walk in late and demand only blue M&M's.
Don't forget to bite the head off a bat and trash the place on your way out.
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#79Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)
The graphics in this article is very misleading. The first three salary values are average values from SimplyHired.com while the last value for rock stars is the "average salary for the top 10 best paid music stars". If you use the same criteria to search for the last category (rockstars), you simply find an average salary of $54,000, not $50,000,000. http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-(rockstar+OR+%2... Th…
If you want to find the income from the top programmers you would need to include people like Bill Gates. While he spent most of his life as management most of his wealth from stock gained while he was a programmer.
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#80A recruiter contacted me via email looking for a developer "at the Jedi level". Interestingly, though she said she'd read my resume, she was looking for a Java developer in Maryland (I am a Ruby developer in Chicago). I asked her to clarify what skills the Jedi level entailed (I couldn't help myself). She wrote back and said that it meant they wanted "a rock star" Recursive Super-Hero Bingo for the win!
Perhaps you should have alluded to an ability to produce code without physically interacting with a computer system, and to control the minds of the weak-willed--like department VPs. I'd be interested to see how far you could push it.