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If you have ever worked in software-related industries, the chances are that the word “Rockstar” will elicit a visceral reaction. It’s a word used by a Certain Type Of Manager for an elite software developer who’s so 1337 they don’t play by the rules of ordinary mortals. In reality it’s use is invariably an indication of trouble ahead, either from clueless startups or troublesome rockstar developers making a toxic atmosphere for the mere members of the backing band. Hackaday has a team that brings together a huge breadth of experience, and we’ve been there.
Think I'll stick to being a roadie developer. You know, get my job done so other people can do theirs.
Source: https://hackaday.com/2018/07/28/become-the-rockstar-developer-youve-always-dreamed-of-being/
(Score: 5, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday July 29 2018, @04:40PM (3 children)
To me, rockstar developer means living in a van down by the river, culturally appropriating lower class and other race clothing styles and speech patterns, drinking a bottle of whiskey every night, then as a result having marketing panties thrown at me when I step up to begin my meeting presentations, right before my drummer/project manager dies of a heroin overdose onstage. I mean, its like that for all you guys, right?
Seriously though, I know by definition 50% of management is below median performance, and all that, but what kind of retard grows up watching "The Partridge Family" and "This is Spinal Tap", and then decides, yeah, what I really need for software development is those dweebs sitting in front of laptops in an open office. Like, I seen dumb, i seen really dumb, I seen Army dumb, and this is like a whole nother circle of hell of dumbness deeper than that. I strongly urge my competitors to conform to the "rockstar dev" meme.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)
To me, this looks like TMB lampshading his self-image as SN's cool, leather-clad, motorbike-riding pr0grammer icon [1].
[1] With easily the best one liners since Duke Nukem.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:42PM
Haven't owned a bike since my 20s and there's no point in getting a new one in TN. Riding a bike with a helmet on is like using a dildo instead of your cock for fucking; it might still be fun but knowing how much more fun it could be utterrly ruins the experience.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Monday July 30 2018, @06:14AM
I’m sooo glad that cultural appropriation wasn’t invented until recently.
Fuck, let’s talk about the Indo-Arabian number system [wikipedia.org] (yep, the one we use today), and the Phoenician alphabet [wikipedia.org] (yes, we use a variant of it).
And don’t get me started on Spaghetti Bolognese, you shouldn’t try to cook it unless you’re are Italian of course, or you do realize that tomatoes [wikipedia.org] came from America (the continent) and the spaghetti from Arabia [1]; so as they say, if you steal from a thief you get one hundred years of pardon. (Ladrón que roba a ladrón, tiene cien años de perdón. There I go, appropiating shit!)
<sarcasm>Fuck, fire was invented by the Neanderthals so we are screwed!</sarcasm>
[1] It appears that spaghetti was invented in the Middle East. References: 1 [wikipedia.org] and 2 [101cookingrecipes.com]