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Hello! I would appreciate any feedback for my new personal site. Specifically, I'm pleased with the concept and appearance on desktop/tablet, but I cannot think of how to make this…

The play on words in the name is used also used by a charity: Well Boring, who digs wells in rural Africa. The fact that we, as a species, have failed to deal with challenges like …

I made this since the concept had been kicking around in my head for ages. Obviously I don't condone this sort of thing.

The quote at the bottom is a bit tongue in cheek! I found it surprising how slowly money accrues even with very high salaries when you watch in real time. A watched pot I suppose..…

Thanks for that... I'd even written a digitSuffix function but managed to forget "rd"!

Appreciate the feedback. I'd definitely like to work on the background. The wood texture is a bit of a cop out really.

To save HNers some time, I'd guess a lot of us will be in the 'software professional' occupation category.

I opted to put anything 'off the charts' as 100th - maybe I should make this clearer? Congratulations on the salary, though!

Thanks, very kind!

I created this site as a demo of my data-visualisation skills for a job application. Any feedback much appreciated!

Heavily depends of user-base. My G/A account includes a consumer-focused site getting millions of UVs monthly, IE accounting for 49% market share, of which only 80% are IE8/9. On t…

It seems that Facebook has a heuristic where it looks for unusual numbers of retracted 'Likes' and then starts requiring confirmation before logging new Likes. This makes attacks s…

Wow - that is quite amazing. I wonder if that's in use in the wild yet. Edit: It seems like this is a largely solved problem for Facebook: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/view…

Actually just CSS won't work in this case - because the Facebook Like button is within an iFrame. This works because Javascript cycles show/hide a transparant div above the Like bu…

Thanks for that :) I was thinking of perhaps creating an invisible target for them with the same offset as the FB like/button, so that they could be clicked with the 'fake' cursor …

I'm not sure if you can say that it's a direct result of Evercookie, but a number of high profile sites use this kind of tech - for example KissMetrics.com is used by a number of b…

That's because there's a transparant DIV above the Facebook iFrame, cycling on/off every few milliseconds. This is required to maintain the fake cursor's position (without it when …