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

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.