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Melbourne Programmer Hacks His Way To Top Of Charts – Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Culture – Music Feeds
“In an effort to uncover security flaws in online streaming services like Spotify, Filimore decided to send “garbage” tunes to the top of the charts and generate royalties in the process. Filimore started by using algorithms to compile public domain audio and splicing cheesy MIDI tracks together. Filimore then purchased three Amazon-linked compute instances […]
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‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar | Sentence first
“Is prepositional-because grammatical? Sure. Not in Standard English, of course. But lots of people are using it in a systematic and semantically transparent way. It has obvious appeal in a range of informal contexts, though whether it manages ultimately to insinuate itself into more formally acceptable usage remains to be seen. You needn’t use or […]
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Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help | Wired Business | Wired.com
“I am a devout fan of capitalism. It is the best system ever devised for making self-interest serve the wider interest. This system is responsible for many of the great advances that have improved the lives of billions—from airplanes to air-conditioning to computers. [..] I’ve heard some people describe the economy of the future as […]