Buying a new PC for development and a used (or cheap) Android device to run your hobby app would have been the fraction of the cost.

1:1 meetings? what's that?

1 on 1 meetings, typically with a manager.

was joke

I love the fact that this "rather grubby" article, that makes fun of people begging for money, begs for money.

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