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notsrgon React Native Open Source Update

AirBnb always comes up as an example of a team abandoning RN but it seems like no one actually read the entire blog post. Migrating an existing native app to RN is going to be hard for anyone. Starting from scratch with CRNA? Not so much.

notsrgon React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released

If you actually read the full blog you'll realize it'll actually convince the right people to either adopt or avoid RN:

>The path of a world that is 100% native or 100% React Native is relatively straightforward.

but ultimately... hybrid apps are hard. Airbnb had a ton of infrastructure that needed porting over to RN that often required contributing upstream to fix issues they found. If you're starting from scratch you can get pretty far sticking to React/JS.

imo I can't imagine a startup using anything other than RN (or react-native-web) because of how quickly you can build things.

notsrgon Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

One of the best CS textbooks I've ever read. I recently reached out to my OS prof because I couldn't remember the title. Funny to see it posted on HN a couple days later.

notsrgon Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users

What do you mean "deliberately [...] impossible to use"? Select a contact and choose "Start secret chat", wait for the keys to exchange and then the entire experience is identical to unencrypted chats.

notsrgon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion.

notsrgon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

1. Banks/exchanges/Paypal have KYC regulations - fulfilling these are impossible due to Onion routing provided by the nodes.

2. My mom does not know how HTTP works and she uses the Internet just fine. It's naive to think that users are going to be explicitly opening and closing channels, finding best path, etc. These can be built into wallets and abstracted out. Besides, Bitcoin of today is already too complicated for the "average" person.

notsrgon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

You could argue it, but you'd be wrong. 0-conf requires trust, LN is trust-less.

notsrgon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

If only Coinbase and large exchanges can afford to run full nodes, how many programmers will be able to afford to program your programmable money?

notsrgon Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution

As long as you solve transaction malleability (segwit), #1 is a non-issue.

notsrgon Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America

Already happening in Canada.

notsrgon Ending Bitcoin Support

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/

153 nodes currently on mainnet.

notsrgon The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson

Widely accepted by who? Not lawyers. Try actually reading the bill: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-as...

notsrgon Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger

Uber would probably disagree that you need permission for anything.

notsrgon Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger

And Bitcoin Cash will need GB or even TB sized blocks to scale to the size of Visa. If scaling the network was as easy as changing 1 variable it wouldn't be that hard to get consensus on a scaling solution.

notsrgon Cryptocurrencies are collapsing

The last 1% of unmined Bitcoin will last over 100 years. A majority of mining profits at that point will be from tx fees.

notsrgon Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

You can see on a regular basis that South Korean exchanges are always paying 25-50% more than Western exchanges.

The Bitcoin pump to 20k, the entire history of Bitcoin Cash, and recently the Ripple pump to $3 were all pumped by Bithumb, Upbit, etc. Hence the controversy with Coinmarketcap removing Korean exchanges for a second resulting in the marketcap dropping 50 billion.

Even right now, almost 50% of XRP volume is in SK all paying > $2, but there's no Western exchange trading above $2. See: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/#markets

notsrgon Bitcoin is Eating Itself

Even with wallets using Bitcoin is not user friendly in any sense of the word. If you already use PGP, sure. If not, good luck securing those keys. Oh and hope you made backups.

notsrgon Bitcoin is Eating Itself

Luckily you could use literally any other cryptocurrency that anyone isn't using to get fast tx's and low fees.

notsrgon Bitcoin is Eating Itself

Obviously can't give you a date but they recently hit a milestone with all integration tests passing:

https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/

notsrgon On the growing risk of the 51% attack against BCash

Increasing the blocksize increases centralization at a time where miners have unprecedented power.

notsrgon HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs

That's a lot of work to make software you paid for not spy on you...

notsrgon With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold

Don't look at the prices Canadians pay (for less), you might choke on something.

notsrgon My wonderful world of macOS

iTerm2 + 1Password + sudolikeaboss is an amazing workflow that I depend on on a regular basis.

notsrgon Ask HN: How do you keep track of node packages/ruby gems security issues?

This cli is free and easy to add to a CI pipeline: https://github.com/nodesecurity/nsp

notsrgon JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

Ughhhh... what?

notsrgon Gitter is open source

Gitter is a great idea in theory. In practice it's just been a place for my questions to go unanswered.

notsrgon Show HN: Under the hood ReactJS

I would rather the complexity live in a third party library with an extremely simple public interface than have it live in multiple 1000 LOC of vanilla JavaScript that's laid out however whoever wrote it felt that day. You couldn't pay me to do frontend without React - the developer experience is absolutely terrible.

notsrgon New features you can't use unless you are in Python 3

You think someone is going to start a new project and use a 7 year old OS? I don't think it's "unfortunately my problem" when biz/client reqs for a 7 yo OS are completely out of my hands, unless of course the mindset is "use Python 3 or die trying".

notsrgon Net neutrality is in jeopardy again

More and more people are moving into condos in cities where a board picks one ISP and that's what you get. Are you really going to move just to switch ISP's?