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Looks like it could implement things like http://material-design.storage.googleapis.com/videos/animati... to an extent...

marcomson How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

What a beautiful cat

marcomson An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal

$ bc

606024*7

604800

marcomson Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment

See https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/ for a similar (released) approach

marcomson TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

right, but does it use the default monospace fonts set by the user or do you set your own?

For example, my default monospace font is Source Code Pro - will it use my font or your own (if any)

marcomson TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor

Are the mono font's hard-coded? i.e. font-family: "custom font" vs. font-family: "monospace"

marcomson Font-awesome: 71 New Icons in 4.1

Not too confident that the git icon should be a variant of the old GitHub logo...

marcomson Google Noto Fonts

Nice to see Material design in use on their sites for one of the first times!

marcomson Google Noto Fonts

No technical reasons, but it would be unlikely for Apple or Microsoft to adopt a font made by Google, when their own alternatives exist, despite technical superiority. Android already uses Roboto, which has been heavily invested in for Android 4+ and now with Material design too. Of course, by Linux I'm assuming you mean the popular distributions of it like Ubuntu, but even Ubuntu has its own font which it is unlikely to change - other non-"branded" distros probably would be the only ones who might.

marcomson Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows

Does anyone know what the "v" means? Svbtle, Bvckup, Backvp... Is it supposed to be pronnounced like a "u", and just why use it in the first place? No disrespect.

marcomson Google Material design framework

Their implementation does not only consist of CSS - there is canvas, shadow DOM, and other areas that are all heavily intertwined with Polymer, which would make extracting it difficult and complex.

marcomson Google Material design framework

Yes, but AFAIK it's polymer-specific

marcomson Show HN: Sentinel.JS - The simplest alternative to angular.js

Why does no client-side framework beside Knockout use data-* attributes? Whyy??

marcomson Goodbye Heroku

Not sure, but is something like Divshot a viable replacement for Heroku - they both seem to be doing the same thing: developer webapp hosting, but there's probably a difference somewhere.

marcomson Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream

Struggling to find any point of that comment that was downvote-worthy.

marcomson Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream

s/At least they don't have to use C++/OK/

marcomson Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream

I didn't mention C.

marcomson Linux Dash – Simple web-based server monitoring

Also check out Cockpit [0] for a similar, pre-dating project.

[0] http://cockpit-project.org

marcomson Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream

At least they don't have to use C++

marcomson Go support for Android

So is this basically the NDK but using Go instead of C? I was hoping I could not use Java at all...

marcomson BZFlag: open-source, portable, online multi-player game

Its in Arch's [extra] repo, which is convenient.

marcomson NativeScript – Cross-platform framework for building native mobile applications

I would also be willing to try it, provided I didn't have to register with any services to do so