aidanbeck

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by aidanbeck 2mo ago
And feel free to roast my implementation. There are a lot of objective improvements I should make, but at least I didn't use AI. https://github.com/aidanbeck/sequence
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Show HN: Sequence, a daily spatial number puzzle(notebeck.com)
3 points by aidanbeck 2mo ago|2 comments
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by aidanbeck 3mo ago
Everyone is gravitating to the phone, but habit is an enduring force. Some people will always use a computer for specific tasks as they learned for the rest of their life. I think most of us are in that camp.
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by aidanbeck 3mo ago
This is still the case for non-techie Millennials and older. But for the younger generations who might have grown up with a smartphone as their only personal device, the distinction of task importance determining the platform has disappeare
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by aidanbeck 4mo ago
One fun unintended mechanic: Because sailing off screen loops you around Pacman style, and because a browser window is dynamically resizable, you can use this to your advantage teleporting behind the enemy and taking them by surprise. Love
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by aidanbeck 4mo ago
The downside mentioned by the author's replacement in the article is the unfortunate explanation for why this is rare in practice. > "but that’s a lot more work for us." And it's not that any individual or team is laz
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by aidanbeck 4mo ago
I was going to comment on the Terence Eden excerpt quoted by the author about the woman researching housing benefits on an old PSP browser, when I noticed that you (the OP) are Terence himself. It's strikingly powerful, and a reminder
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by aidanbeck 5mo ago
Aside from the fingerprinting methods, the graphics processor string seems to be the most immediately personal data given up (other than location, which was incorrect for me). I could see sites tailoring ads around an assumed class, income,
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by aidanbeck 5mo ago
The most intriguing case for hijacking is in Neal's "cursor camp" game linked by the author. In my own designing of applications, navigating a 2d space exceeding the boundaries of a window has a whole host of design problems.