WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is appealing, it also comes with new challenges. For instance, how do you debug .wasm binaries? At Mozilla, we’ve been prototyping ways to enable source-level debugging…
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Rust in Large Organizations Notes, Hacker News
FB dev env -- backend services repo -- is mostly C++ and Java. Very polyglot environment. Glued together with Buck, FB's Bazel. Buck: Language agnostic. Supports Rust. rustc drops in quite nicely, basically equivalent to C++ compiler. wanted to use cargo but it just does too much to fit in need to delineate parts of…
Read More »Dow Rallies 200 Points as Trump's Tough China Tactics Bear Fruit – CCN Markets, Crypto Coins News
The Dow Jones rallied on Wednesday amid global risk-on trading as tensions eased and the trade balance showed Donald Trump's China tactics may be working. | Source: REUTERS / Carlo AllegriWednesday brought a welcome relief rally for the Dow Jones, which surged more than 200 points as risk assets rallied around the globe.Tensions eased in…
Read More »Coinbase and Ripple Muscled Out of Top 10 Hottest US Startups – CCN Markets, Crypto Coins News
Crypto startups Coinbase and Ripple have dropped from top-10 positions to No. 28 and No. 29, respectively, on LinkedIn's 2019 top 50 startups list. | Source: Shutterstock; Edited by CCNDespite being a relatively new sector, the blockchain and cryptocurrency space can this year boast of having two crypto startups, Coinbase and Ripple, in the LinkedIn’s…
Read More »Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle, Hacker News
by Peter Norvig In this essay I tackle the problem of solving every Sudoku puzzle. It turns out to be quite easy (about one page of code for the main idea and two pages for embellishments) using two ideas: constraint propagation and search. Sudoku Notation and Preliminary Notions First we have to agree on some…
Read More »Going beyond images with basic video for the web | web.dev, Hacker News
Learn basic video. Increase engagement. Sep 3, 2019 Are you thinking about adding video to your website? As devices and network connections have become faster and more powerful, you can move beyond images and add video to your toolchest of techniques to build the web. Research shows that websites with video lead to higher engagement…
Read More »Binance & BitMEX Kiss and Make Up After Plagiarism Accusation – CCN Markets, Crypto Coins News
BitMEX accuses Binance of plagiarism, but it's not long before the two bitcoin exchange giants kiss and make up on Crypto Twitter. | Source: Reuters (i), Distributed/YouTube (ii). Image Edited by CCN.Binance and BitMEX shared a social media bro hug after the latter publicly accused its fellow cryptocurrency exchange of plagiarizing documentation featured in its…
Read More »FIFA Chief Appointment Means More of the Same From EA – CCN Markets, Crypto Coins News
FIFA lead David Rutter's arrival as supremo of EA's European studios means more monetization, but the real problem lies elsewhere. | Source: AP Photo/Martin MeissnerEA announced yesterday that David Rutter would be taking the helm of the company's European-based studios, citing his work in reviving the waning FIFA franchise in the late 2000s and his…
Read More »ReadMe (YC W15) is hiring. Help us make APIs easy to use, Hacker News
We're currently looking for...Support EngineerSan Francisco, CA, USADeveloper EvangelistSan Francisco, CA, USAFrontend DeveloperSan Francisco, CA, USAProduct-focused Node/React DeveloperSan Francisco, CA, USAWho We AreA tight-knit team of engineers, marketers, customer success reps and all-around good folks building a tool that over 3,000 companies use daily.Our office is in San Francisco; our clients are everywhere.And because we're…
Read More »The Big Short’s Michael Burry Explains Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs, Hacker News
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