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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 TechCrunch: The Maximum, Beautiful Product
Happy New Year! On the last day of 2012, Redfin published The Maximum, Beautiful Product, a TechCrunch post questioning whether the lean startup’s relentlessly incremental
The Best Ideas of 2012
Quartz, the Atlantic Monthly’s new business magazine, recently asked me to compile a list of the best ideas to emerge this year from the technology
Stealth Internship: Collections
Kelsey, a Product Manager (PM) intern here at Redfin over the summer, took a non-traditional approach to writing about her summer internship – she created
A Beautiful Find
Redfin today launched Redfin Collections, a gorgeous new Redfin.com feature for you to share sets of listing photos with your friends, your real estate agent
Tour of Duty
Starting today, you’ll be able to request an in-person home tour with a Redfin agent right from your iPhone or iPad. Now, when you see
Why Do People Become Redfin Agents?
Big news! Redfin just published a video about why people become Redfin agents. I make a corny appearance at the beginning and the end, but
