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EllaMentry
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About EllaMentry
Currently building a number of things, mainly focused around Stream Processing technologies, but I am interested in a number of things from Procedural Generation, Crypto, Security, Lexicography, History, Physics, Graph Theory, Songwriting.
Want to chat about any of the above? Drop me a line at me@ellamentry.org
Cheerios,
Ella Mentry :)
Recent public activity
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Comment #6403632
From the image: "There will be teams organized around business goals....and teams organized around what they do (like teaching, video, developer etc.)" Sounds an awful lot like an …
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Comment #6397953
The paper is charting how sex and gender have been used throughout academic literature in the past few decades. In the last few decades we have learned swathes more about the compl…
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Comment #6397846
They have completely different connotations...one is a self descriptive, the other is belittling.
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Comment #6397843
Read the paper and better understand what you just quoted...
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Comment #6397827
The two words mean entirely different things...
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Comment #6397732
Wow...I don't know how much more stereotypical sexist male you could get in one email..."girls", "pink lanyard", gender binaries... The way to attract more women, stike, people to …
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Comment #6397068
Just a heads up, you list C# twice under Programming Languages...you must really like it ;)
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Comment #6387272
I have had an internet connection since I was 11, and a computer a few year prior to that. Int he beginning the only way my parents let me use the internet/computer was in a public…
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Comment #6387186
That is a very long article based on flawed argument. Given no other information, assuming someone gave you 2 envelopes and told you one has $40 vs $20, common sense dictates choos…
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Comment #6386696
I really have no clue what your point is here... The first link concerns a small group protesting against increased automation...this has happened in practically every place that h…
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Comment #6378454
It is hard to make any judgement or give advice without some data...can you upload your resume to share? Maybe there is something that stands out?
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Comment #6350848
Actually you started off by saying you can't teach "talent", now you are saying you can teach it but it may be hard... Do you honestly think your genetics is playing against you in…
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Comment #6350745
Swimming is not innate...some people do pick it up easily, others take a couple of times, but I have never heard of anybody who is "unable to learn how to swim" and once they learn…
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Comment #6350678
Are you serious?! The first couple of drawings are terrible, primary school level drawings - the perspective, shading etc. are all completely off. If you honestly believe you could…
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Comment #6350467
This is completely false: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/09/jonathan-hardesty-9-yea... (the original forum thread seems to be down at the moment) - but it chronicles a guy who s…
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Comment #6350046
Concrete Mathematics should not be too hard to understand for someone who understands basic algebra. Most of the topics it covers use nothing more than arithmetic and simple logic.…
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Comment #6313821
English is a tricky language, good on you for attempting to master it - you can write better in English than I can in any other language! I hope you don't mind me providing some fe…
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Comment #6308335
That is interesting, from a reread, I would say the "youngness" is a product of the length and over-descriptiveness. ""Magic" is my term for "I don't know how it works because I ha…
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Comment #6308001
Honestly this does not read well. You have some decent points (not unique points to any professional software engineer but good points) - there are several grammatical errors "to(s…
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Comment #6307964
I would have thought this would be common sense by now - don't submit to a polygraph ever - it cannot help you, only hurt you. And don't submit to any kind of interrogation without…
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Comment #6275765
True, however, I also noted the sample was not just small but narrow. 72, female, university students - I would be surprised if over 6-8 weeks their cognitive capacity didn't impro…
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Comment #6275683
"The participant pool was composed entirely of 72 female students at the University of Texas at Austin, because researchers were unable to find male participants who played compute…
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Comment #6267213
BY definition it cannot be the fastest AND most secured... As slater pointed out fastest would be direct client to client with no intermediary and no slow encryption. Adding encryp…
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Comment #6261180
I'll try to be helpful... "Fastest" "Secured" "Cloud Computing"...none of these things is like the other... If you want to attract potential partners you are going to have to provi…