[calinet6]

Can we please stop using the term "rock star?" It's getting old.

This idea that a single programmer is somehow so much better or superior may have its merits, but it's harmful to your overall business if you put all your weight on that single support.

You have to accept that above a certain number, your employees will fall on a bell-curve of ability, and you should support the efficiency and productiveness of the entire system, not depend on a few "rock stars" to drag it up with you.

Here are words I associate with Rock Star: driven (sure), but myopic, single-minded, selfish, unbalanced, and unfaithful. I say we strike it from the vocab.

[noselasd]

I agree completely with that. If you're betting your future on having all your employees being an order of magnitude better than the average, well - you're gambling high.

[MartinCron]

You forgot "drug addicted".

[eli_gottlieb]

And skirt-chasing, and very likely to refer to everyone as "bro" or "braw".