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Negotiating state employee compensation?

How do I negotiate compensation for a state position?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 11:45 AM on October 31, 2011 (5 comments)

Warm fuzzy feelings?

Why should I transfer my savings account to a credit union?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:58 PM on October 14, 2011 (26 comments)

How to best buy bonds for a retirement portfolio?

How do I pick bonds for the bonds portion of a retirement portfolio?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 8:29 PM on October 6, 2011 (10 comments)

A penny saved is a penny insured

Downsides to setting aside cash to self-insure a car?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 3:27 PM on September 16, 2011 (16 comments)

Labor of love, or profit?

How do independent used stores price things? Particularly, video games?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 12:49 PM on April 2, 2011 (6 comments)

Note to self: try this in ten years

Has Google changed the structure of the web?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 9:56 PM on February 1, 2011 (10 comments)

Just a bit to offset the hosting bill at most.

Tips for migrating my livejournal blog to personal hosting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 9:15 AM on January 16, 2011 (6 comments)

Optional defensive driving courses

Are online defensive driving courses worth it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 6:07 PM on January 5, 2011 (7 comments)

Nice place you've got there.. hate to see something happen to it!

My lease doesn't end for another 7.5 months, and I just got a letter today from the landlord requesting I renew the lease by the 20th. Is this normal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 3:43 PM on December 11, 2010 (20 comments)

Sorry guys, I have to be up in the morning!

How do I go apartment shopping in a small town?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 3:49 PM on October 9, 2010 (10 comments)

Feed with commitdiff?

I need software to generate an RSS feed from a revision control repository, complete with commitdiff output.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 12:38 PM on October 2, 2010 (1 comment)

I'm gonna have to build a rougelike, aren't I?

Have you ever seen a creative sysadmin resume?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 5:09 PM on September 2, 2010 (14 comments)

How can I put the extra money on my prepaid phone plan to work?

How can I put the extra money on my prepaid phone plan to work?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 3:28 PM on July 8, 2010 (8 comments)

Has nothing changed in the past 8 years?

Can anyone recommend a good technical / business writing book?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 9:25 PM on June 9, 2010 (4 comments)

Computer podcasts with more science?

Are there any good podcasts on Computer Science research?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:05 PM on June 1, 2010 (3 comments)

Complete invasion of privacy?

How much information can I get about Planet Money's toxic asset?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 5:06 PM on May 21, 2010 (5 comments)

Can I undo the tide of history?

Can anyone think of a way to hack in podcast XML from Youtube?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 11:43 AM on May 9, 2010 (6 comments)

Can performance beat experience?

How should I prepare to apply for a promotion?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 10:23 AM on April 14, 2010 (5 comments)

Are CSS fluid layout frameworks viable today?

Are CSS fluid layout frameworks viable today?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 12:22 PM on March 6, 2010 (15 comments)

CRITICAL ERROR

We monitor our systems with Nagios (via Opsview). How should I set WARNING and CRITICAL disk notifications on a server to make these notifications informative or productive?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:18 PM on February 13, 2010 (7 comments)

So MeFi, what do I need to know to bottle lightning?

Help me photograph lightning.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 10:05 PM on January 29, 2010 (5 comments)

Discount arbitrage brokerage

Cheapest way to buy a single share of of Bekshire B?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 9:13 PM on January 22, 2010 (10 comments)

What first sparked your interest in computers?

I need help finding citations for a story about programmer's inspirations. A giant whiteboard asks for the spark that interested people in computers and the answers are all video games.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:06 PM on December 17, 2009 (2 comments)

Desudser?

How can I clean the soap out of my (laundry) washing machine?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 6:34 PM on November 23, 2009 (10 comments)

Is there a crash course on cellular markets?

I've owned a cellphone for ages, and have largely remained ignorant of the business workings. Is there a crash course on cellular markets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 3:40 PM on November 6, 2009 (6 comments)

Compare two podcast episodes for similarity?

How can I generate a dotplot of general files?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:15 PM on October 13, 2009 (3 comments)

If it hurts, don't do it?

Why does my background torture LCD screens?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 1:01 PM on September 16, 2009 (13 comments)

How can I strip a USB cable?

How can I strip a USB cable?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:24 PM on August 1, 2009 (15 comments)

What do I do with my old car?

What do I do with my old car?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 6:03 PM on June 7, 2009 (15 comments)

Help me find a blog post on web hosting!

Where did I read about a semi-famous blogger and entrepreneur's advice on webhosting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 7:56 PM on May 24, 2009 (6 comments)

( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

What's the oldest recorded use of the Spam Solutions Form Response?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 12:18 PM on May 15, 2009 (13 comments)

Recommend a maillog analyzer

Recommend me a good sendmail log analyzer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 2:21 PM on April 14, 2009 (3 comments)

Did he really say that?

I've seen a quotation running around recently, attributed to Bill Gates: "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." Did he really say that?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 4:56 PM on February 18, 2009 (17 comments)

Reccomend an NSLU2 alternative!

What Network Attached Storage enclosure should I get?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 8:50 PM on January 26, 2009 (10 comments)

Why aren't there any 3rd party wireless controllers for current game consoles?

Why aren't there any 3rd party wireless controllers for current game consoles?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pwnguin at 1:32 AM on January 6, 2009 (13 comments)

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