This weeks @androidweekly included a post by @VasiliyZukanov that unfortunately perpetuates a myth in programming; it's ok to use threads.

Before I explain why this is myth that we need to kill, you should read the post: techyourchance.com/concurrency-fr…

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1/x There are a number of problems with the solution in this post, but I'm just going to focus on one; using low-level concurrency APIs (i.e., java.lang.Thread).

With very few exceptions (we'll get to those), this is always a bad thing.

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