What programming language should a neophyte start with to organize his life? Yes, another one of those questions. But I have two specific tasks that I'd like to accomplish and this makes choosing a language really hard for me. Especially since i'm a complete n00bler. [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2008 - 35 answers

Quick, MeFi I need a dog park to go to in Yokohama, Japan, anyone, anyone???
posted on Jan 15, 2007 - 3 answers

Question for the SQL ninjas in the house. Say you're grabbing data from a bunch of similar tables in a big union. Now say you want the last ten items added anywhere to the database, from any one of those tables. What's the most efficient way to do that? [more inside]
posted on May 10, 2006 - 22 answers

Actuary Filter: How many MeFites are dead? [MI]
posted on Dec 29, 2004 - 25 answers

[FrontPagePostFilter]. What link has been the victim of the most front page posts on MeFi? I wonder, only because Strandbeest hit its 4th one today and I suspect that the record's got to be higher than that.
posted on Sep 28, 2004 - 7 answers

A while ago, on my old site, I posted this parody of MeFi. (It was subsequently, um, noticed. Yeah, sorry about that.) I thought a fitting tribute would be to post it to my user page. As is plainly obvious, tis fux0red for I am not l33t. Or else, there's some sort of cotton-pickin' interference, as the anchor tags seem to be all kerfluuey. Help, pwease?
posted on Sep 11, 2004 - 5 answers

I didn't know about lofi until graventy mentioned it in Metatalk. Are there any other tricks, sub-sites, whatever you want to call them to Metafilter?
posted on Aug 5, 2004 - 6 answers

I'm bored with the World Wide Web. Can anyone help? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2004 - 22 answers