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Posted by Mike Seidle on Mar 17, 2013

Could Your Bank Account be Cypressed?

What would you do if you woke up and read in the news that the government decided to take 10% of the first $100,000 in your savings account next week? That is exactly what is happening in Cypress. Last week, the Euro Zone and Cypriot government came to an agreement that had the effect of freezing 10% of everyone’s savings account in anticipation of the Cypriot parliament ratifying the agreement. So,...

Posted by Mike Seidle on Mar 7, 2013

Python Jobs. Lots of Them.

At my day job at DirectEmployers we like two things: Python and Job Boards. So we decided to create a job board for Python jobs using our .JOBS Microsite platform. As of today (March 5) there are 5.995 open Python developer positions listed on Python.Jobs.

Posted by Mike Seidle on Dec 31, 2012

Redoing My Daily Workflow for 2013

I’m a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done. GTD is a personal organization system based on distributed cognition that accepts that: Keeping your mind clear makes you capable of doing your best work. Things change a lot. Keeping organized requires that you accept that. Delegating happens. A lot. The key to making GTD work is having a system you can trust for recording tasks. In 2012,...

Posted by Mike Seidle on Sep 25, 2012

Random Thoughts on Business

The last moths have been crazy. My oldest daughter has been battling unknown digestive issues after having her gall bladder removed, and things at work have been busy… so no time for blogging… which is tough for one of the guys who started Professional Blog Service. Hopefully I’ll have time for more than a few random thoughts in the future. Feature Parity is a Waste of Time Trying to...

Posted by Mike Seidle on Sep 4, 2012

Why Charter Schools and Vouchers Are Worth It

Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of articles condemning charter schools and vouchers. Almost every article I’ve read goes something like this: Charter school perform about the same as public schools according to standardized tests. Charter schools and vouchers suck money away from (failing) local public schools. Here’s why I think charter schools and vouchers are a great thing –...

Posted by Mike Seidle on Apr 11, 2012

Salt: Remote Execution and Configuration Management With Python

Last night's IndyPy Meetup was a blast. We had around 25 python developers there and I had the privilege of sharing a little of what I have been working on over the past week or so at DirectEmployers Foundation.

Posted by Mike Seidle on Apr 3, 2012

Three Product Design Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid

Sometimes you win because the competition goes out of their way to lose. Usually this is the case when one company nails it, and everyone else strikes out.

Posted by Mike Seidle on Mar 30, 2012

Why Python is More Productive

I was reading a recent discussion argument on Slashdot about how Python’s duck typing was inferior or superior to static typing (yes, the article was about if Python was fast enough, but the discussion wasn’t questioning that). It is a very silly argument, because it really sidesteps what matters: Python is an order of magnitude more productive than most statically typed languages. Here is...

Parallelizing Batch Jobs for Fun and Profit

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