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Show HN: Wayin.com - Ask questions and "weigh in" on things you find online
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by 75c84fb8 14y ago
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 design patterns, which may be a reflection of bureaucracy o
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Gist: Backbone 'soft' models, which are neither loud nor silent(gist.github.com)
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by 75c84fb8 14y ago
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 generated. For smaller uses it shouldn't be an issue, but gratuito
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by 75c84fb8 14y ago
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. Setting a CSS background is a nice, simple approach.
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
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 page zoom, whereas mobile Safari seems to zoom into the viewpo
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An interesting approach to building scalable CSS layouts.(obadger.com)
1 points by 75c84fb8 15y ago|2 comments
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
Thanks. I enjoyed watching that.
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
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 head up will likely have it cut off. Asking pointed questio
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
So do they ask questions because they're smart, or are they smart because they ask questions?
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
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 to make programs; kind of from a down-and-dirty, implementati
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
> 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 renderings, and more with natural motion, like a human walki
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
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.
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
I'd like to nominate private subviews as a pattern. (function(){ var myPrivateView = Backbone.View.extend({...}); app.views.Foo = Backbone.View.extend({ /* use myPrivateView somewhere in here */ });
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
> 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 you. Have you heard of iced coffee script ?( http://maxt
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
> 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 saying I don't have my own notions of what's missing in JS,
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by 75c84fb8 15y ago
Cache poisoning?