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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.
My Redfin Internship: Shafqat Dulal
Diving Right In Coming into the internship, I had high hopes. Among other things, I was drawn to Redfin by the opportunity to make a
My Redfin Internship: Utsav Ahuja
Utsav describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
Race, Ethnicity and Gender at Redfin
Today we are publishing data on how we pay women and men at Redfin, as well as the representation of different races and ethnicities in the company.
My Redfin Internship: Mike Ma
I wrote this blog on the last day of my summer internship at Redfin. Though I don’t want to, but have to say goodbye, I’ll
My Redfin Internship: Krishnan Srinivasan
Krishnan describes his experience as a dev intern in Seattle.
My Redfin Internship: Josh Vorick
My summer internship on the Platforms Team at Redfin was a completely unique experience unlike any other internship I’ve had. I wasn’t sure what to
