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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.
Redfin on NPR’s Morning Edition
Redfin got a nice plug on the national version of NPR’s Morning Edition & the phones have been ringing off the hook all day ever
Cue Dave Eraker, Redfin Founder!
Our irrepressible founder, Dave Eraker, is headlining a panel discussion on online real estate at the MIT Enterprise Forum tonight at the Bellevue Hyatt. He’s
Big Map!
Thanks in part to suggestions from some of our blogging friends, Redfin has published a new version of our site, with a larger map, and
Consumers Win Round II In Kentucky
Under pressure from the Department of Justice, the Kentucky legislature this week abandoned a bill that would have given the state’s real estate commission the
College recruiting
Redfin has quadrupled in size over the past few months, which isn’t hard to do when you start small. Now we’re hitting the college campuses
Redfin & Zillow
Redfin appeared today in the New York Times. The article was the 2nd-most e-mailed article on the New York Times’s site. The article also discussed
