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After the Great Recession: The End of Funny Business
The folks at Redfin have been thinking a lot lately about how the world will look when the recession is over. Last Tuesday, we said
Cleaning Whitespace in Postgres
As part of our recent release, we added every survey submitted about our agents to our agent profiles. To prep for this, we needed to
Scarlet Letters and Dying by the Sword
At BloodhoundBlog Unchained last Thursday, Greg Swann hosted Redfin for a debate on whether all the venture capital that has been poured into real estate
Brown-Bag on Public Speaking: 25 Tips
Redfin launched its 2009 brown-bag lunch program last Friday, where employees and guests speak on how we can broaden our horizons beyond our little startup
We’re No Sell-Outs
On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness
We're No Sell-Outs
On Wednesday, Redfin announced a partner program in which a small group of agents committed to our principles of technological efficiency, customer service and openness
Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
