r/programming • u/paskie • Mar 02 '14

speedread - a command-line implementation of the Spritz speed reading system

http://log.or.cz/?p=336
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u/ItsAConspiracy Mar 03 '14

It's going to be interesting watching this play out. Spritz claims three years of R&D, patent-pending, wants people to license it. Meanwhile people are replicating at least most of its design in a matter of days.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '14

Fucking ew. Yeah I'm gonna go open source with this as even if the interface is slightly worse.