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Chris Bateman

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Chris Bateman's personal blog at cbateman.com covers web and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Chris Bateman's blog for web technology and game development commentary, including a post on what Internet Explorer 10 lacks compared with other browsers and a piece on why programming isn't futuristic.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Chris Bateman is a Front-end Engineer living in San Antonio. This is where he writes about JavaScript, the Web, and other sundry topics.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I dunno, I think programming is pretty futuristic. We've got live coding, futuristic platforms, fast dynamic languages, etc... Of course, the most futuristic platform is right under people's noses, the browser. It does things that old Lisp programmers imagined, like live coding, even 3D games, with sound, and even Kinect-like motion control. Live coding: http://www.mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/ WebRTC: http://cbat…

    Comment linking /demos/head-coupled/

    on “Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?”
  2. Submitted What's Missing in Internet Explorer 10 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. This was just submitted a few hours ago: http://cbateman.com/blog/whats-missing-in-internet-explorer-... That's probably not even the full list of what's missing in IE10, as html5test puts IE10 way below the others in HTML5 features: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html I wouldn't hold my breath for WebGL appearing even in IE11. Whatever Microsoft is saying, the "security" of WebGL is not the main reason why Mi…

    Comment linking /blog/whats-missing-in-internet-explorer-10

    on “Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]”
  4. Submitted Nevermind Skeuomorphism, Just Get the Volume Display Out of My Face as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Head-Coupled 3D Transforms as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted No-Nonsense Guide to Web Components as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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