Couldn't agree with you more. I've never been a big fan of the "good programmers are rarer than unicorn's teeth" school of thought, since both developers and b

Couldn't agree with you more. I've never been a big fan of the "good programmers are rarer than unicorn's teeth" school of thought, since both developers and business folks have their own self serving reasons for believing it, and because it's just not true in my experience. More likely is that there may not be any good programmers available that fit the exact slot they're looking for. If they'd just give a programmer who's 85% of the way there a little time to come up to speed, they'd fill their chairs with competent programmers in a fraction of the time. But instead, they'd rather hold out for a genius with years of experience in their exact little universe - and in so doing, screw themselves out of the much-larger-than-they-think universe of good developers out there.