The site works for me: I can always double-click in the middle to push the cruft offscreen (I hate sites with aggressive sidebars). Some of his posts are quite

The site works for me: I can always double-click in the middle to push the cruft offscreen (I hate sites with aggressive sidebars). Some of his posts are quite good. > And that's the sad state about the German software industry. The industry has treated software engineering like mechanical engineering way too long, with isolated teams that have long iteration cycles. So true! There are some fabulous programmers in Germany but German industry seems pretty much incapable of producing much decent software, much less software companies. And the much vaunted "startup" scene in Berlin is pretty dire: almost all the "startups" are actually just small businesses. Not that there is anything at all wrong with small businesses -- I love to do business with them! -- but a startup is a different beast.