Jan Weiss recommended 9 Signs you’ve become a Startup Hipster from venturevillage.eu:

Like Inception, it’s not uncommon for a Stipster Startup to take interning to a meta level, where people are interning for the chance to intern for the chance of a permanent intern position.

Jan Weiss recommended OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review from arstechnica.com:

iOS has succeeded where nearly 30 years of the Mac platform, and desktop computing in general, has failed. Regular people—millions of them—are seeking out and acquiring software and using it to make their lives better.

Jan Weiss recommended Excuses - Journal - Howells. from howells.ws:

It’s not the right moment. There’ll never be the right moment. It’s as simple as that.

Jan Weiss recommended Reflections on So & So from alasdairmonk.com:

I'm not saying for a second that making native apps is a bad idea, there's a huge amount of positive points I could write about them, but they aren't the only solution that some people have made them out to be.

Jan Weiss recommended Nielsen is wrong on mobile from netmagazine.com:

Mobile isn't just 'mobile'. It's also the couch, the kitchen, the three-hour layover, all places where we have time and attention to spare.

Jan Weiss recommended What I Know About Germans: Now a Top 100! from uberlin.co.uk:

They love a large, mind-bogglingly well stocked hardware store (with a bratwurst stand out the front). Perhaps because they quietly live by the mantra, if you want something done well, do it yourself

Jan Weiss recommended Web Design Manifesto 2012 from zeldman.com:

In today’s monitors and operating systems, yesterday’s classic web fonts—the ones that come with most everyone’s computer—can look pretty danged gorgeous at large sizes. Try tired old Times New Roman. You might be surprised.

Jan Weiss recommended Die Piraten zum Urheberrecht: kommentierter Auszug from buero-buening.de:

Wenn ich die Forderungen der Piraten zusammenfassen darf: Alle Werke sollen raus aus der Wirtschaft und rein in die Hoheit des Staates. Schönes Leben, schöne Welt.

Jan Weiss recommended Pirat Christopher Lauer: Schlecker und Illner: Meine Tage im Fernsehen from faz.net:

Ein Pfarrer, ein Ministerpräsident, ein Bundestagsabgeordneter, ein Landtagsabgeordneter, eine Wirtschaftsverbandsvorsitzende und eine Moderatorin in einem Studio - und sie reden nicht über Schlecker, sondern erzählen sich etwas vom Pferd.

Jan Weiss recommended Liebe Generation meiner Eltern, from dieliebenessy.wordpress.com:

Das Internet, das sind in ihren Augen nicht ihre Freunde, ihre Kinder und ihre Nachbarn, sondern das ist eine anonyme, tyrannische Masse ohne Ordnung und Disziplin.

Jan Weiss recommended Germans can't escape their Lutheran past from bbc.co.uk:

Those thrifty Germans are bailing out those who have shown no talent for thrift in the past. This, of course, was an argument Mrs Merkel - the Good European - cannot really accept.

Jan Weiss recommended The Man Who Stole Pinterest from gizmodo.com:

Pinspire isn't a ripoff of Pinterest because German weddings involve smaller cakes and are almost never outside.

Jan Weiss recommended Lionel Messi never dives from kottke.org:

By diving instead of staying on your feet, you usually give away that advantage (unless you're in the box, have Ronaldo on your team taking free kicks, or can somehow hoodwink the ref into giving the other guy a yellow) and that doesn't make any sense to me.

Jan Weiss recommended What the World Can Learn From Germany's Debate Over Gender Quotas from theatlantic.com:

And let's consider the message that long-term quotas would send. Do we really want a younger generation to get the impression that women need protection from the free market? And even if you buy the current argument for quotas, what does it say that they're being set at 30 percent, rather than 50?

Jan Weiss recommended On the iOSification of OS X, and why it doesn’t matter from howells.ws:

Mac OS was not made exclusively for a creative production audience. It’s made for anybody.