My career has always been on the peripheral of more technical roles and I've excelled without getting to code-specific knowledge but in my job search everyone seems to want a product manager who can use code, even if it's not part of their job. What language should I learn?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by toomanycurls at 4:28 PM on December 19, 2015 (23 comments)

I am looking for four things here: A) Examples of successful one-man-shows or mom-and-pop shops that support the author B) Personal anecdotes if you have firsthand experience with making money online as an individual (or small shop) C) thoughts, analysis and maybe articles regarding which kinds of monetization work for which kinds of sites and why and D) what tools exist beyond AdSense, PayPal donate buttons, Café Press and the Amazon affiliate program for making money online?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Michele in California at 12:27 PM on September 12, 2014 (5 comments)

Looking for some book recommendations for someone who wants to move from 9-5 to self-employed in an artistic field (specifically writing, but the book needn't be so specific--just not about say, starting a manufacturing business). But only looking for PRACTICAL books. I keep picking up things that look practical that end up either being more "inspirational" or that are trying to cover too broad a base, from people who want to open a bake shop to people who want to do web comics.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Calicatt at 8:46 AM on August 19, 2014 (5 comments)

Mr. Kitty and I got into the Paris Marathon for 2015 (yay!) We decided to make it a long vacation. We plan on spending 3 weeks in France - the first week will be mostly adjusting to time difference, marathon running, and recovery. The second week actually exploring Paris, and the third week....is a giant question mark
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Suffocating Kitty at 6:29 PM on April 24, 2014 (8 comments)

Hello all. I'm a software developer, and I seem to be a magnet for batsh*t when it comes to jobs. During interviews, I've been outright lied to. Once I get on the job, I invariably find the positions I take are just not what the interviewer made it sound like they would be. Ultimately, I find these jobs descending into madness. Literally. I've found myself on the receiving end of everything from disrespect to downright mentally abusive behaviors.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Grimmie at 5:25 PM on August 13, 2013 (17 comments)

but right now, I just need some practical advice from someone who has experienced this. My family is estranged from my mentally ill homeless sibling (SiblingA. My father is quite old and ill, he is leaving his estate to my SiblingB and me. I am the executor.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by wandering_not_lost at 7:57 PM on July 26, 2013 (7 comments)

Serious and fascinating interviews with people (celebrities, musicians, whomever) who are not usually considered serious or fascinating? By the metric I'm using, Lady Gaga or George Clooney are probably a tad too highbrow; Tom Clancy or Katy Perry are fair game. It doesn't matter who the people are, what they do, or what they're known for, only that they are generally not taken especially seriously or considered to be all that interesting.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 3:58 AM on May 23, 2013 (24 comments)

Researchers, Writers, Grad Students, and Professors: Tell me about your technical setup (hardware and software). What do you use, and what couldn't you live without?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:32 AM on November 2, 2012 (25 comments)

What are the best iOS apps you can use while travelling without a data plan?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by smackfu at 7:18 AM on September 17, 2012 (11 comments)

Statistics, machine learning, and image analysis/processing. Two months. Self-study. No other obligations. Recommendations?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by puppetsock at 8:14 AM on May 14, 2012 (10 comments)

Help me drop Livejournal for good by finding a Scrapbook replacement.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Mizu at 6:09 AM on December 24, 2011 (3 comments)

New to the Seattle area (again, it's been awhile) and dying for some good Indian food. Where do I *need* to go? I'm not afraid with venturing out of the city if there's gems to be found.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by codswallop at 7:02 PM on November 22, 2011 (24 comments)

Answer me these questions three: Do you live in Seattle, do you have a Toyota and do you have a mechanic that you absolutely love? Hook a brother up then!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by friendlyjuan at 11:06 PM on October 23, 2011 (5 comments)

Is there a way to search through your own Facebook Profile, specifically your status updates? Alternately, is there some sort of third-party app that would allow me to gather/download that data and dump it into a local program and search that way?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ike_Arumba at 4:15 PM on January 31, 2011 (5 comments)

Suggestions for text analysis tools, please! Following a short discussion in the Metatalk infodump thread with cortex and iamkimiam, I realized that we'd appreciate suggestions for tools that can analyze text corpora and text files. Thanks!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by carter at 12:36 PM on December 12, 2010 (5 comments)

Is there a way to video conference 4 webcams in an easy and reliable way, preferably free? I would love to find a service like Skype that allows more than 2 people to video talk at the same time. Thanks for your thoughts!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mortaddams at 6:30 PM on November 23, 2010 (5 comments)

I've been using an RSS reader I host on my own server called Fever. It is awesome. What other cool things like this can I host myself?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by The Devil Tesla at 8:42 AM on October 6, 2010 (7 comments)

iPhone App: I want to upload EVERY photo I take, to Flickr, immediately after being taken. This means that I want the app to upload in the background, REGARDLESS of what I'm doing. I may hit the home button and go on to another app, or I may just throw the phone in my pocket. I want the new spiffy multitasking to work as promised and upload my photos. I want to use this as my main camera app. I use a 3GS, so multitasking does work fine.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Merlin144 at 5:07 PM on September 7, 2010 (14 comments)

I have a manager who constantly interrupts my attention-hungry programming work with easy, quick tasks that she believes "will just take a second, no problem." This destroys my productivity. How does the hive mind deal with this?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sonic meat machine at 12:13 PM on April 16, 2010 (35 comments)

Best internet forums?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by SouthCNorthNY at 3:50 PM on January 12, 2010 (87 comments)

Can you geeks help me retrieve my Facebook status updates from ancient times, i.e. mid-2008 & before?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by apostrophe at 12:22 PM on January 1, 2010 (2 comments)

Where can I get the best "pouch foods" in New York City? I'm looking for anything involving ingredients sealed in some kind of dough: dumplings, samosas, pierogies, empanadas, etc. Suggestions welcome for all five boroughs.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Awkward Philip at 11:22 PM on December 29, 2009 (23 comments)

Can you recommend some good stores like http://www.goldmine-elec.com/ and http://www.sparkfun.com/ I'm looking for little motors, gears, metal rods, rubber rollers/grommets as well as electrical components.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Charlie Lesoine at 7:57 PM on December 3, 2009 (20 comments)

I'm looking for some sort of web service that will keep track of previous travels and do things like make a map with pinpoints of where I've been, where I've been in the past year, etc. Mapping out highways taken and the like would be even better. Sort of like Brightkite, but without the whole social networking thing. I don't care about planning future trips or booking flights or hotels. Does this even exist?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by reductiondesign at 6:00 AM on November 24, 2009 (6 comments)

iPhonefilter: What's a good iPhone app for document scanning?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by applemeat at 5:56 PM on October 18, 2009 (6 comments)

I've been reading a collection of E.B. White's essays lately and stumbled across the wonderful "Here Is New York," wherein he tries to capture his city in print. I'm looking for similar odes to / summations of other places (preferably of essay-ish length.)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by theoddball at 10:41 AM on May 1, 2009 (11 comments)

At work I have to face the Final Boss of the Internet for the next several months, and my trusty Cisco sidekick is starting to tard out on me. How do I level up enough to be able to use him effectively?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by thalakan at 10:45 PM on April 22, 2009 (6 comments)

In this article, Clive Thompson says Disqus invented "selective invisibility" -- the moderation technique of hiding the activity of troublemakers and trolls from everyone but the troll themselves. I know this can't be true, mostly because I implemented it on Upcoming.org back in 2003. But I remember the idea floating around long before that, and some old online communities definitely implemented it, but I can't remember which ones. Any old-schoolers remember?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by waxpancake at 10:31 PM on March 25, 2009 (26 comments)

Help me find the authentic persian cookbook, potentially written in farsi...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by typography at 4:17 PM on March 15, 2009 (8 comments)

Are There Good Blogs About The Statistical Programming Language, R?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by chrisalbon at 3:06 PM on March 14, 2009 (11 comments)

Good, reputable PSD to CSS/HTML/XHTML service?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pakoothefakoo at 6:41 PM on March 9, 2009 (5 comments)

Refer a friend / referral tracking system?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by letitrain at 5:55 PM on March 8, 2009

[Find-that-website] So. There's this website where you would enter everything you do everyday - what you had for breakfast, what color shirt you wore, what TV shows you watched, whatever. After you had compiled enough data, it would come up with dubious statistics relating things you have done against world news and other users. For example, I might find out that every time I have eggs for breakfast there's an earthquake in SF, or that some guy in California wears a purple shirt every time I forget to floss. I might have found this on the blue or in PC World, and it was probably sometime around 2006. I've been looking for this site forever. Help.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by niles at 7:21 PM on March 2, 2009 (7 comments)

I've made a new fabric product that I hope would sell 5000+ units. For viable efficiency I need to buy manufacturing of the product or its parts. I don't want to reveal my product idea, but let's use a SLR camera bag made in sturdy fabric as an example. My product has similar materials, size and complexity. How do I go from there?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by nolnar at 5:19 AM on January 23, 2009 (6 comments)

Can you recommend some alternatives to Make magazine/blog without the social baggage and less emphasis on blinktrons and noisetrons?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ookseer at 2:52 PM on December 22, 2008 (21 comments)

Image recognition on the PC, where do I start?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by wongcorgi at 6:54 PM on December 22, 2008 (9 comments)

I'm looking for help in finding good examples of interest surveys for social sites that match a user to a group/other users based on interest survey results (very much like StumbleUpon process but its focused on matching sites I might like). I'm looking for best practices, too, to decide on hierarchy structure (what is a considered a top level and second level category).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dael at 2:29 PM on November 17, 2008 (1 comment)

Best way to make money off of unused domains? Sell or sign up for PPC?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by specialk420 at 8:10 PM on November 16, 2008 (2 comments)

Measures of diversity / fragmentation / concentration for nonexclusive categories?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:20 PM on November 15, 2008 (10 comments)

Career-shifting to alternative/renewable energy field ... (Anon so work friend doesn't spot it). I'd really like to shift careers (from financial services and retails sales) to *something* that will take advantage of the wave of interest in alternative and renewable and sustainable energy. Help please in where to start.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 6:33 AM on November 12, 2008 (7 comments)

For minor pet health questions: suggest websites that are comprehensive & user-friendly? I'd like to avoid unnecessary vet visits.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pseudostrabismus at 11:17 AM on October 30, 2008 (9 comments)

Baby's online presence/scrapbook. Any recommendations for a site to keep family and friends informed while also archiving baby's early life?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by k8t at 11:30 AM on September 12, 2008 (11 comments)

Help me with this Urban Planning problem. I live in your typical bedroom community on the perimeter of a large metropolitan area. We have about 30,000 residents and a lot going for us in terms of community and location. We're going to get hooked up on the regions new commuter rail system, but it's on the far side of the community and I don't see it getting much use without a feeder system of some kind. Our regional mass transit system sucks otherwise; so we're on our own to develop an intra-community system that will keep our community vibrant, green, and support commuter rail.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by IndigoSkye at 10:34 AM on August 22, 2008 (14 comments)

I am interested in creating a pseudo-scientific catalog of personal traits, both quantitative and qualitative, but concrete rather than subjective. Some categories I thought of are: countries or states visited, body measurements, identification numbers (like driver's license, social security, credit card, etc). What are some others?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by i_am_a_fiesta at 10:43 PM on August 10, 2008 (9 comments)

How can I cultivate ruddy cheeks?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by boy detective at 9:53 PM on August 3, 2008 (14 comments)

What are some good ways to market a website?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by blueplasticfish at 10:38 AM on July 29, 2008 (3 comments)

Is there a site out there that can help me keep track of what I wear?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mathlete at 5:25 PM on July 27, 2008 (5 comments)

How should I put my diary / autobiography online? I'm almost asking how best to order and annotate my old photos, but I'd like the possibility of more extensive writing as well. I'm expecting to order things by date, but advice on categories would be good. It's not a commercial venture, just fun for the extended family.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by airplain at 1:18 AM on July 27, 2008 (1 comment)

I've been coerced by a client/employer to start using HTML email messages for communications with our customers. Please help me do this in the most net-responsible way possible (or tell me to burn in the special hell reserved for people who put markup on the SMTP wire)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by alana at 10:38 AM on July 16, 2008 (9 comments)

I just went on a cruise with a big group of people. We all took photos. We would all like to upload our photos to a common online album. How would we go about doing that?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rileyray3000 at 2:25 PM on July 10, 2008 (9 comments)