Mammas Don’t Let Babies Grow into Rock Star Developers - Rikki Endsley (Ignite OSCON 2015)

1,807 views · Published 17 August 2015 · 5:21 · Indexed 12 November 2026

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From OSCON 2015 in Portland, a 5-minute Ignite talk: "Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be rock star developers".

Why would anyone intentionally hire a rock star developer? Rock stars are known for being high maintenance, unreliable, over-paid, and difficult to work with. Instead of rock star developers, open source needs a lot more Willie Nelsons.

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