No we don't. We stopped doing that when other folks who were hiring "rock stars" failed to get a product off the ground, and proved their salaries couldn't live up to the livelihood of what a rock star expects to be compensated, thereby making the phrase "rock star" in any sense other than someone who does what Jimmy Buffet did overwhelmingly kitschy, and anyone using the phrase mind-numbingly foolish.
Thanks for playing.
If we really want to give programmers silly names fine I am a "Professional". Aka the movie "the Professional" where you have a problem, you pay me money, I solve the problem. Rock Stars are just another silly name people give out so they don't have to pay you what your time is worth. Look up actual rock stars they tend to end up broke because while it might look like the are making a lot of money most of the time they are getting peanuts.
I haven't seen it yet and it's on my Hulu queue. Thanks!
Argh!
Sheesh. Would it kill you and jacquesm to put a courtesy "spoiler alert" notice at the start of your messages?
(This is all incredibly off topic so this'll be my last post on it.)
Great movie though, The Professional, go see it anyway, in spite of the spoiler and enjoy the music too.
I think there is _something_ to the rockstar image... namely passion. Accept no bullshit, swear at the suits, light shit on fire to get results passion.
But I agree, "rockstar" A) doesn't cut it as a metaphor and B) is not a word a real developer would use to recruit a real developer
If you want to give my kind of programmer a nickname, save it for your business docs. My fathers already gave me one:
Hacker.