Her article is wrong. NYC actually is missing engineers,  or more accurately, missing internet-software-company-potential-employees. There are quantifiably more of these people in the Bay Area than there are in NYC. I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I actually think there are a higher percentage of "jack of all trades" programmers in NYC. In the Bay Area there are enough software engineers so that people can get much more specific about their areas of expertise. In NYC, there are fewer engineers, so people are forced to do a bit of everything.<p>Caterina Fake's real complaint is that she can't find one person to do three jobs at once for her at Hunch, which isn't surprising.