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Dutch Company Says It Owns Patent on No Man's Sky's Procedural Generation Algo

Posted by mattfieldy on Thursday July 21, 2016 @12:24PM
from the escapistmagazine.com dept.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/167988-Dutch-Company-Says-it-Owns-the-Patent-on-No-Mans-Skys-Procedural-Generation-Algorithm

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Re:Sturgeon's Passionate Revelation on Monday February 03, 2014 @11:46AM (#7171665)

By extension, 90% of the internet is crud - this article wasn't. Thanks Reg.

Elderly Bletchley Park volunteer sacked for showing Colossus exhibit to visitors

Posted by mattfieldy on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:51AM
from the theregister.co.uk dept.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/28/bletchley_park_sacks_elderly_volunteers/

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Re:Cloud to Butt Plus on Friday September 20, 2013 @10:18AM (#6417823)

Install plugin, "Cloud to Butt Plus" -> "Butt to Butt Plus" ^_^

Re:DevDocs on Friday June 28, 2013 @06:03AM (#5957112)

DocHub already exists that does the same thing but with more docs.

http://dochub.io/

Transloadit upgrade free plan from 100MB to 1GB

Posted by mattfieldy on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @07:54AM
from the transloadit.com dept.

https://transloadit.com/blog/2013/05/changing-our-free-plan

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Re:"Hackathon" Has Been Trademarked in Germany on Friday May 03, 2013 @11:21AM (#5650553)

I'm sorry, but are you fucking kidding me?

Re:An apology to open source on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:54AM (#5400064)

This is such a shame. Companies that shut down projects like this are completely ignorant as to the benefits of open-sourcing such a useful tool.

Re:Things a text editor must do on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:53AM (#5361265)

For an article that prefaces it's dialogue with a desire to "leave the right-thinking reader with an impression of calm, reasoned rationality", it reads like opinionated tosh. How the author arrived at these six criteria as a reasonable litmus test for the applicability and usefulness of a text editor absolutely boggles the mind.