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If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...

>If your country has "democratic" in the name

"The United Democratic States of North America not including Canada" would be quite the name.

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Some things in CS programs are engineering, other things are philosophy.

Advanced CS work has more to do with psychology and sociology than science and engineering in my experience.

Care to elaborate?

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If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...

>If your country has "democratic" in the name "The United Democratic States of North America not including Canada" would be quite the name.

It would surely be

"The Federal Republic of the Democratic United States of America"

(I've been in Africa waaaaay too long :) )

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computer science is math

engineering is math too, math is eating everything, oh noes! but not really, that's software after all. engineering is applied math, so largely software modeling, whereas CS is theoretical work. abstract problems, pure solutions.

> engineering is applied math

It's applied math and applied science. The science informs how to apply the math, since the math is a model of natural phenomena. In fact, most of the math came to engineering via the science.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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I met/had a similar experience with Google ATAP in 2013 (was Motorala ATAP then; Google recently bought them) though not for a job interview but to discuss working together to build our tech SpeakerBlast into the Moto X. They asked if we ever thought about selling our technology to them before the meeting and at the meeting they baited us for how our tech worked saying we'd like to work with you tell us how it works.…

Google’s motto was don’t be evil, they’ve clearly changed their mind.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If your country has "democratic" in the name "The United Democratic States of North America not including Canada" would be quite the name.

It would surely be "The Federal Republic of the Democratic United States of America" (I've been in Africa waaaaay too long :) )

United Federation of the Democratic-Republican States of America.

Re: Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

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If your country has "democratic" in the name it's probably not democratic. If your major has "science" in the name it's probably not science. If your company has "don't be evil" in its motto...

Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king.

Also holds for someone saying "I'm intelligent" and "trust me".
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