Square is also like this on the Android side of things. The Square Cash team is the penthouse of cool evangelist programmers and the rest of the company is locked in the basement.
Berlin! Berlin is by far the cheapest capital in Western Europe. You can get a nice sit down meal in a restaurant for 5-6 euros in the center of the city and rent a nice apartment for 500 euros a month.
There is a large tech scene and everyone speaks english here. It's sometimes hard to practice German because English is so common!
This is great news for android developers! Maybe one day google will be able to deprecate Gingerbread! It was released over 4 years ago yet every android app must support it since it represents about 20% of users since manufacturers continue to sell phones with it in 2014.
Gingerbread is a real pain to support and bloats and slows all android applications by having to include a huge support library (~5MB).
"all official 24 EU languages” to "all 24 official EU languages"