As clarified by others, I missed the reference to the album because I never really listened to Van Halen and I apologise for my harshness. But we are on the same boat.

P.S. I need to listen to 5150 now!

Please stop using this bs terminology, rockstars, ninjas and all that sort of crap. With all respect to Ryan he is just one of many great programmers.

No one can truly know the mind of another human being, but I'm pretty sure Carson Gross is sick of the term as well.

I do agree with you that sincere language is more likely than sarcastic derision to turn the tide, but you should know that you guys are on the same side.

I thought this was just an allusion to the 5150 in the error message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peavey_5150

So rockstar in this context is spot on.

But otherwise, that terminology is complete shit, yes.

I think it's a gag on nodeJS's current trendiness.