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We're a Denver, CO-based startup. This is the second release of our website—not just a re-skinning but a fairly radical re-invention of what we offer. Now that the service is live …

Maybe a better question is, why do long-established websites tend to look like long-established websites? Maybe websites that have been around for a while tend to fall into certain…

Yeah, it's probably the gratuitous secondary sunburst being drawn into the background of that demo page. That's a pretty big PNG image (i.e. the size of your viewport) being genera…

originEl if present overrides originX/Y. It wouldn't be too hard to build a similar tool that absolutely positions a canvas within an element, but there's a tradeoff in complexity.…

Yeah, you can't zoom this page on desktop browsers. Although you can in mobile Safari. Chrome and Firefox seem to simply scale the underlying the pixel value in order to achieve pa…

Thanks. I enjoyed watching that.

Interesting. And maybe not even just in the younger years. Having worked in a big corporation, where politics flowed thick, there can be a social perception that one who sticks his…

So do they ask questions because they're smart, or are they smart because they ask questions?

I'm not an expert on programming language design, so I was hoping someone can help me understand. When people talk about syntax, do they mean how bits of text are strung together t…

> How do you know? A friend of mine works on visual effects Any chance there's a link to it online? I'd love to see an example :) Anyhow, the problem for me is less with still rend…

It's a good way to break a view into logical sub-components, while still only exposing one overall view to the world. Really just a variation on data hiding and encapsulation.

I'd like to nominate private subviews as a pattern. (function(){ var myPrivateView = Backbone.View.extend({...}); app.views.Foo = Backbone.View.extend({ /* use myPrivateView somewh…

> inescapable async-all-the-way down, which necessitates endless lambdas. In other languages it's possible to pick a point at which to invert control back to blocking-style I hear …

> The lack of a strong set of standard control and data structures [in JavaScript] means that you end up typing many of the same patterns repeatedly Care to elaborate? I'm not sayi…

Cache poisoning?