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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • For anyone who knows and understands Android development, process death, and saved state…

    The previous dev had no understanding of any of it, and had null checks with returns or bypassing important logic littered all over the app, everywhere.

    I could only assume he didn’t understand how all these things were randomly null or why it was crashing all the time so he thought oh, i’ll just put a check in.

    Well, you minimize that app for a little bit, reopen it, and every screen was fucked visually and unusable, or would outright crash. It was everywhere. This was before Google introduced things like view models which helped but even then for awhile weren’t a full solution to the problem.

    It was many many months of just resolving these problems and rewriting it the correct way to not have these problems.















  • This isn’t a tax on wealth, it’s a tax on income.

    There probably isn’t a single billionaire out there with a billion dollar income in any given year unless they’re doing some massive sell off like when Musk sold shares to buy twitter.

    What actually happens, is the more wealth you have, the less income you’re actually likely to have at least in proportion to the wealth, because you start doing things like taking loans out against your shares in a company, and potentially never pay it back until you die at which point the estate will pay it off, but I think there’s even some weird estate transfer things that make that favorable to them as well.