As someone who has developed software in Palo Alto and in other places, I can testify to a mystique of the valley that some hold. It's true that you can get th

As someone who has developed software in Palo Alto and in other places, I can testify to a mystique of the valley that some hold. It's true that you can get things done -- particularly scale a company and get investors -- more easily there then anywhere else in the world. And there are a lot of the world's greatest computer scientists there. But some people think that it is the only place, or a least the easiest place, that you can do really cutting edge engineering. That seems a little more dubious to me.