Totally agree on your first point. Not only is technical talent lacking, it's filled with a lot of dreamers. In the end, very few people have what it takes to p

Totally agree on your first point. Not only is technical talent lacking, it's filled with a lot of dreamers. In the end, very few people have what it takes to put in the hours ontop of their workload. I understand this is tough, esp. for engineers (being in compeng myself), but in the end, if you want it enough, you'll do it. As far as the big corps vs local startups go, new Velocity management seems to be taking big steps towards fixing it. Honestly, Velocity as it is right now, is just a convenient place for my existing team to collaborate. I don't really have any expectations of picking up new people since they're 1 in 1000 at Waterloo. Net net tho, things are improving and I look forward to people playing rockband less and actually doing something useful :P