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goodcharles··on Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web
https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061615/http://www.evilwa... was another good one
goodcharles··on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
I just watch this monthly, it helps

https://youtu.be/UFqz5xkgRbs

goodcharles··on Researchers discover a new form of scientific fraud: 'sneaked references'
Its SEO spam link building for academics
goodcharles··on Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (1999)
This is so incredibly wrong: Once you have put a page on the Web, you need to keep it there indefinitely

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/web-pages-must-live-forever...

We need a curated web, not a swamp of every web page that ever existed.

goodcharles··on Plants that are signs of former human settlements
Too flammable, and the wood twists too easily with the coastal humidity.
goodcharles··on Plants that are signs of former human settlements
In Big Sur you can find prickly pears and sweet lemon trees at old homesteads.
goodcharles··on Nugs.net server overload for Dead and Co final show
In San Francisco of all places
goodcharles··on Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
Meanwhile, people with no scientific training are entrusted to run A/B tests and other web experiments.

Practically all web marketing experiments and analysis is invalid, and not replicable. But it pays the bills for everyone to pretend its legitimate.

goodcharles··on Zendesk to be acquired
Hope the band can stay together! http://zendeskalternative.com/
goodcharles··on Is Web3 Bullshit?
Yes. Metaverse also.

The phrase "social media" has become passé and even toxic.

The language around BTC & Crypto have political & other baggage.

Web3 is an attempt to re-package the past 10-15 years of web trends in a hip new label that leaves behind the baggage and allows for the appearance of "new stuff happening". But nothing much new is happening.

goodcharles··on We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
Blocking Drift Chatbots (those annoying things that change Title in browser windows, make noise, obstruct page content)
goodcharles··on Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
Not the worst time for the publicity.
goodcharles··on Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930
Depends on the country. In a place like India or Mexico, people everywhere are doing things every day that would make headlines in the US.

An entire family of 4 riding on a single motorcycle without helmets in heavy traffic? Normal in India. Would generate new for weeks if done in the USA, parents would be arrested for child abuse.

goodcharles··on $15 minimum wage didn’t hurt NYC restaurants
Teenagers aren't available until, what, 4PM? Who is supposed to run the restaurant the first 12 hrs of every day?
goodcharles··on Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Strongly disagree. Recently took a graduate level database management course, and using Instructure was one of the hardest parts of the course. Poor information flow, too many places to have to check for notifications, tasks, and basic information.
goodcharles··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
Seeking Freelancer | BMC | Part-time | Remote

BMC has a number of websites, these are the main ones: https://www.bmc.com/ (AEM) https://www.bmc.com/blogs/ (WordPress) http://communities.bmc.com/ (Jive)

I'm looking for a person to help improve our website UX/UI, improve on our consistency of patterns and elements, help design A/B tests and experiments, and that sort of thing. Our DevOps team handles implementation and most coding.

Probably 20 hrs per week, 6 month contract to start, and see how the role grows.

Email me: stephen_watts@bmc.com

goodcharles··on Cricket Juice Healthier Than Orange Juice? Many Insects Loaded with Antioxidants
Also should add - some molecules like Nitric Oxide act as both an antioxdiant and free radical.

The vitamin sellers often use the browning of a cut apple as an easy-to-explain example of the effects of oxidation.

goodcharles··on Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on the page at all
Yes this is true. Google will rank web pages, based on the inbound links pointing to the page, even if Google hasn't crawled the page itself.

This happens regularly when a web page is blocked from crawling via Robots.txt file. Google still indexes and ranks the page, but Google has no idea what is on the page.

Want to keep a web page out of rankings? Allow Google to crawl it (by not restricting via robots.txt), but use a NoIndex meta tag or X-Robots-Tag HTTP header to indicate that the page should not appear in search results.

goodcharles··on AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to
LOL. Of course they're still charging the advertisers.
goodcharles··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)
BMC Software | Web Optimization Testing Analyst | Bengaluru | Full-time, onsite

http://jobs.bmc.com/jobs/marketing/ind-bangalore-ii-na-india...

BMC Software is seeking a Web Optimization Testing Analyst to manage the day to day operations and strategy of testing on BMC websites. The Web Optimization Testing Analyst is responsible for administering the web marketing testing and surveying toolset. This role involves validating test ideas, planning for tests, implementing tests within the toolset, configuring personalization, analyzing results, and communicating findings.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities: - Administer website testing and surveying tools including Adobe Target, UserExperience.com, Qualtrics, and others - Manage testing process with tasks such as: intake test requests, maintain prioritization list of upcoming tests, maintain library of test findings, determine development and creative needs of individual tests, work with cross-functional team members to prepare for tests, administer toolset as needed - Implement personalization programs as they relate to test toolset - Develop new test ideas and work with others to prioritize upcoming tests - Collaborate with project managers and contributors from teams across the organization - Act as project manager for tests, following up with stakeholders and generally keeping tests moving from idea to completion - Evaluate, document, improve, and standardize internal processes for testing and optimization

goodcharles··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
BMC Software | Remote USA

Senior Manager - Web Operations/Strategy This role is responsible for the leadership of BMC's Web Operations team, ensuring timely execution of content and other operational updates as well as owning the operational strategy and governance for bmc.com and related web properties.

http://jobs.bmc.com/jobs/mkt-marketing-m-/usa-usa-office-at-...