SecretSquirrel33 - Slashdot User

Comment Utah (Score 5, Interesting) 464

by SecretSquirrel33 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @06:24PM (#50932021) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns?

Utah has a rather low cost of living with a very vibrant and active tech community. Driving down the main highway through the state you will see billboards every few miles for developer related hiring. There are dozens of established tech companies as well as many many smaller startups. A few are:
Qualtrics
Pluralsight
Novell
Adobe
DOMO
WorkFront
MX
InsideSales
FusionIO
Instructure
L3 Communications
Boeing
Oracle
Microsoft
Overstock.com
HireVue

See more at http://siliconslopes.com/deal-...

There is also a vibrant tech community in Utah with a variety of meetups including:
AngularJS Utah ~1400 members
Utah Java Users Group ~1100 members

There are also Python, Elixir, Elm, Haskell, ReactJS, Go, Lambda Lounge, Ionic, F#, Big Data, DevOps, Drupal, C++ and BitCoin meetups.

Also the most common profession currently in Utah is Software Developer - http://apps.npr.org/dailygraph...

Utah is also a great place to live: http://siliconslopes.com/about...

Comment Re:So that means in ten years we can use it right? (Score 1) 80

by SecretSquirrel33 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @10:22AM (#49936605) Attached to: ECMAScript 6 Is Officially a JavaScript Standard

Yes, yes you can use it now: https://babeljs.io/

Comment New York (Score 1) 238

by SecretSquirrel33 on Monday April 13, 2015 @02:31PM (#49464859) Attached to: New York State Spent Millions On Program For Startups That Created 76 Jobs

A good write-up on the current abysmal tax situation in New York: http://national.deseretnews.co...

Comment NSA (Score 1) 241

by SecretSquirrel33 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:39PM (#46114487) Attached to: Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data

It is a front to the NSA.

Comment Epic South Pole (Score 4, Informative) 49

by SecretSquirrel33 on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:40PM (#45819761) Attached to: World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved

In other news, Daniel Burton, a former Word Perfect and Novell software engineer, is currently attempting the first bike ride (two wheels) to the South Pole. You can follow Daniel with live blog updates at http://epicsouthpole.blogspot.com/ Daniel has quite a story switching from programmer to cycling enthusiast http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25470585

Comment NativeBOINC (Score 3, Insightful) 70

by SecretSquirrel33 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:46PM (#44439129) Attached to: Cell Phones For Science: BOINC Now Available For Android

I have been using the Android port NativeBOINC for quite a while now. Just recently they even added support to my favorite program, Einstein@Home.

Comment Price (Score 2) 391

by SecretSquirrel33 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:51PM (#44363059) Attached to: A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT

From the very start price was the biggest failing point for the Surface. They were crazy to price it at $499 WITHOUT their key marketing point...the keyboard case.

Comment NSA Datacenter (Score 5, Interesting) 189

by SecretSquirrel33 on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:04PM (#44333451) Attached to: Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening

I live close to the new NSA data center in Bluffdale, Utah. Currently we are under a drought with widespread municipal water restrictions, yet the NSA surveillance center requires 1.7M gallons of water daily to operate.

Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:52PM from the cycle-is-nearly-complete dept.

MojoKid writes "There's no doubt that gaming on the Web has improved dramatically in recent years, but Mozilla believes it has developed new technology that will deliver a big leap in what browser-based gaming can become. The company developed a highly-optimized version of Javascript that's designed to 'supercharge' a game's code to deliver near-native performance. And now that innovation has enabled Mozilla to bring Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the browser. As a sort of proof of concept, Mozilla debuted this BananaBread game demo that was built using WebGL, Emscripten, and the new JavaScript version called 'asm.js.' Mozilla says that it's working with the likes of EA, Disney, and ZeptoLab to optimize games for the mobile Web, as well." Emscripten was previously used to port Doom to the browser.

Comment What would I do without the web? (Score 1) 418

by SecretSquirrel33 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:55PM (#43082535) Attached to: Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow

As a younger developer (~5 years) I often wonder what it was like to be in the industry 25 years ago, before the web is what it is today. Documentation is ALL online. I only read software books for academics or to learn something new. In order to get the job done, there is no substitute to google and/or sites like stack overflow.

Submission + - Staples executive outs six new Kindle Fire tablets (bgr.com)

Submitted by zacharye on Monday July 23, 2012 @08:05AM

zacharye writes: Staples (SPLS) president Demos Parneros has gone on record in stating that Amazon (AMZN) has plans to introduce as many as six new Kindle Fire tablets. A new report on Monday reports that Amazon has plans to add up to five or six new tablet SKUs to its lineup. According to the claim, Parneros confirmed that the Kindle Fire tablets will vary in size, and will include at least one 10-inch tablet model...

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