Discuss the Javascript Async model

[supernullset]

How, why, what does it mean?

Discussion on setTimeout and how it is evaluated. What is a JQuery "Promise"? How can you take advantage of the async model without suffering from callback hell?

Further discussion: Parallel and Concurrent JS

[colinloretz]

Check out #19

[supernullset]

I still think that this would be extremely useful, especially now that promises have been added to the JS language. I would be happy to take this one if people show interest.