chriszhang

I meet people sometimes that don't care about privacy policy because they think they have nothing to hide. I think there were some stories on HN where someone thought they have nothing to hide but then got into problems because their privacy was misused or their data was misused. Those stories provide lesson that everyone should care about privacy and how their data is used. Cannot find such stories now using search. anyone has links to them? Or any similar story or news articles that can be used to convince that everyone should care about privacy even those people who think they have nothing to hide?

One thing I want to avoid is start with heavy and complex beasts like Unity which abstracts away a lot of the basic concepts.

I am looking for something more minimal. Game programming from scratch approach. Like the early days when people used to write programs in BASIC building all the graphical components and audio tones step by step.

Is there something available today? My requirements:

- No game engine.

- Portable technology. I should be able to share my game with users on other platforms and systems.

- A good learning resource to begin learning game programming from scratch.

- Support for graphics and sound.

Any help will be appreciated.

Which editors/IDEs do you use? Did you learn new tricks or shortcuts or commands in your editors/IDEs this year? please share!

This is a question mainly for Lisp programmers but possible to be related to other languages too. Do you use fancy features like electric returns, rainbow parenthesis while coding? What about paredit? Are these additional helper plugins worth it?

A can be anything - vim, emacs, vscode.

B can also be anything.

So I want to know if you were a big constant user of something (like Vim) for many years and then you went from Vim to Vscode for some years but returned to Vim again.

If you went this path can you share your experiences? Why you left Editor A first? Why you returned to it again?

To those who know both Lisp and Python: Which one you prefer to use to write quick and dirty hacks? Which one you prefer for writing applications that will be used and maintained over a long period of time?

I know Python, Common Lisp and Scheme but I find myself reaching out for Python every time I have to write a quick and dirty hack. This is due to more familiarity with Python which makes me more comfortable with Python. What are your experiences? Maybe it will convince me to go all in and use Lisp all the time. :-)

I know about Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee. Have you used one of these or both of these? What has been your experience?

I am trying to decide which of these two services I should use to add "Sponsor" link for my open source project.

Are there any gotchas about each service that I need to be aware of? Does one have any advantages over the other?