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by ftravis 6609 days ago
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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epi0Bauqu 6609 days ago
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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staunch 6609 days ago
> s/rockstar/talented

    Substitution replacement not terminated at line 1.
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ftravis 6609 days ago
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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