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Culture is the set of values, traditions, beliefs, customs, practices and shared knowledge that perbades a group, community, gild, company of group of people.

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Why do software engineers refer to computers as "machines"

When computing machines were invented, the term "computer" already existed as the job description of a person whose job it is to compute things. Computing machines were called "machines" because they …
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