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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 Announces $50-million Investment Led by Tiger Global Management and T. Rowe Price
Today Redfin announced a mezzanine investment of $50 million led by Tiger Global Management LLC and by portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Dozens of Redfin Agents Ranked Best in State
Dozens of Redfin agents were named to an exclusive list of best agents in their state, standing out among the nearly one million licensed REALTORS® across the country.
Redfin Introduces New Instant Notifications in Apple Safari OS X Mavericks
Today Apple announced that OS X® Mavericks, the company’s 10th major operating system, would be available to download for free, and Redfin already has a brand new feature for Safari ® users!
The End of Search: Introducing Redfin Matchmaker
Finding what you’re looking for is easy. Finding what you never knew you wanted is divine. This is especially true in real estate: we swoon for
Vote Today! Send Redfin to the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival
Each March tens of thousands of tech fans descend on Austin for the SXSW Interactive Festival (SXSW). Sessions at this annual conference explore a host of topics from
Redfin Launches Price Whisperer to Ask Buyers What Your Home is Worth
There’s no arguing with people about what their home is worth. Last winter, I tried convincing a neighbor who has long wanted to move that
