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aidanbeck

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About aidanbeck

IT Business Analyst && Software Artist

https://aidanbeck.com/

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    Comment #49035518

    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

  2. story
    Show HN: Sequence, a daily spatial number puzzle

    A field of random numbers with simple interactive mechanics is like a cheat code for designing puzzle games. Credit to my brother who came up with the initial idea, inspired by gam…

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    Comment #48723938

    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 …

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    Comment #48720082

    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 distinctio…

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    Comment #48510113

    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 tel…

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    Comment #48477480

    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 n…

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    Comment #48477252

    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 Ter…

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    Comment #48064087

    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 co…

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    Comment #48022705

    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 …