Nat Friedman

I mean, to be fair, it seems to be the prevailing culture in GitHub for a while now, to quote Nat Friedman[1]; "It's important to do things fast . . . Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit". [1] https://nat.org/

The point of https://patrickcollison.com/fast is not that everything has to be fast, but that you can probably do it faster than you think. Quoting https://nat.org/: "time is the denominator"

Probably Daniel Gross picked it up from Nat Friedman? 1. Nat Friedman has this site: https://nat.org/ 2. They made this together: https://nfdg.com/ 3. And then this: https://andromeda.ai/ 4. Now we have https://ssi.inc/ If you look at the (little) CSS in all of the above sites you'll see there's what seems to be a copy/paste block. The Nat and SSI sites even have the same "typo" indentation.

I really like the minimal CSS on Nat’s website, I frequently reference it when styling my own content: https://nat.org

It's to bad that this doesn't run as a daemon that can simply be queried through an API. Back in the day I remember a linux project called ... dashboard? (found it! http://nat.org/dashboard/) That seemed like a great tool. For whatever it got scrapped and it's guts turned into Beagle. Since I no longer use linux on the desktop it's hard for me to evaluate, but it looks like it's now a tool similar to OSX's Spotlight.

This was the outcome of https://nat.org/puzzle HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503 Some did guess correctly that it was about decoding the Herculaneum papyri

Wow! Congratulations Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza (of Ximian fame). I remember reading this blogpost like it was yesterday: http://nat.org/blog/2011/05/xamarin/

Thing is, these days it would probably only take a small outlay of cash (or finding the right, desperate pro-bono designer) to get a fairly good landing page. Nat Friedman of Xamarin laid this out pretty clearly in a blog post [1]. Just a damn themeforest template would do wonders. [1] http://nat.org/blog/2011/06/instant-company/

Article in a similar vein: http://nat.org/blog/2009/07/nerds-and-jocks/

Your point about the system watching what you do and doing something useful with that information reminded me of some work a few years back by Nat Friedman on "Dashboard" that had me pretty excited at the time: http://nat.org/dashboard/ It was a shame to not actually see that go anywhere other than the prototype stage.

A very well reasoned comment from the article itself! http://nat.org/blog/2010/03/we-have-an-api/comment-page-1/#comment-650…

Kinda remind me of Gnome Dashboard: http://nat.org/dashboard/ Ah, those were the days ;)

> And is he pleasantly surprised at the 250ish Euros or did he consider it too high? He was very pleasantly surprised. In response to a comment on his post, the author wrote: "According to newchoicehealth.com, an abdominal ultrasound in a major American city costs $340 on average at the cheapest service providers. At hospitals it’s much more expensive – $1350 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. And that’s just the ultrasound — without the ER fees, the blood tests, the surgeon consultation, etc, that I also received in Munich. So I think 265 euros is extremely cheap." [Source: http://nat.org/blog/2009/12/no-waiting-room/comment-page-1/#comment-61…

I had forgotten about what ended up in his thesis. It's linked to from the Remembrance Agent site if anyone else is interested: http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf (PDF) "Implicit query" is another term for it. On the desktop side, one of the most realized solutions was the Dashboard prototype: http://nat.org/dashboard/ I've long argued that designing multi-modal interfaces is where applications need to go. We're seeing this now with desktop, web and mobile apps all running against the same APIs, but what it really means is you're more likely to be able to also design a UI that's really an audio-only interface, whispering to you continuously via a Bluetooth headset, or a wrist-mounted UI, or... etc. It also means you can design and build something useful for desktop users, and then mobile users, and then scaled even further down for wearable users. Real-time continuous Google searching as a desktop sidebar, or rendered on an iPad or iPod Touch display linked to desktop input as a second screen, would be a start.

I'm not sure what that has to do with the most recent injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The judge issued the injunction on the strength of U.S. Patent 8,086,604, which "provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different techniques". The infringing technology is specifically called out as Android's Quick Search Box, which has been present for years. The Apple patent in question is obvious on its face. Off the top of my head, Google Desktop Search, which was released a month or so before Apple filed for the patent, is prior art. Nat Friedman's Dashboard project (http://nat.org/dashboard/) represents significantly more advanced prior art and predates Apple's patent filing by over a year. Samsung may be insidious, but that's not the issue at play here. The judge ruled that Google's Quick Search Box violates an Apple patent that should never have been issued, and represents a toe hold to go after Android as a whole. This is a farce.