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Alone, Just the Two of Us
I’d just sat down last month for a chat with the CEO of a very successful startup when his co-founder, the company’s chairman, walked into
Javascript Prototype and Multiple Inheritance with dojo.declare
Coming from the C++ background into javascript programming was a fun ride. I read many blog posts and articles about javascript inheritance, and after reading
May Real Estate Prices Increase 2.2% as Inventory Continues to Fall
Now that Redfin covers about as many markets as the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index, we are publishing our own monthly report on prices, sales volume and inventory: the Redfin Real-Time Price Tracker. Our goal is to offer the deep data access and market insights of a local broker, but on a national scale.
Homes Listed with a Redfin Agent are Viewed Twice as Often
What if we could get our clients’ listings in front of more serious home buyers searching in their neighborhood and give them a better chance of selling for even more money, even faster? That’s just what we set out to do in 2012.
CMSClassUnloadingEnabled at Redfin
tl;dr: If you’re using the CMS collector in Java 6 (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC) server-side, then you should really consider –XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled Today’s post starts out with a story.
Redfin's Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker: Buyers Become More Confident
Today, we’re launching the survey results as a regular report, The Redfin Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker, updated with data for the second quarter of 2012. What we found this quarter mostly is evidence of a strengthening market.
Law & Order, Special Victims Unit: How To Get “The Man” On Your Side When Starting a Company
Just before I joined Redfin, I’d wanted to start a company but my brother got sick and I fell in love and soon I was
Law & Order, Special Victims Unit: How To Get “The Man” On Your Side When Starting a Company
Just before I joined Redfin, I’d wanted to start a company but my brother got sick and I fell in love and soon I was
Twelve Months of Tech-Savvy Hunkiness
Absurd Ideas that Have Gone through My Mind While Working at Redfin over the Years: Goth Fridays Everyone Wear Red Pants Just Like Glenn Day!
How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos
First off, let me disclaim one thing: I’m not a developer at Redfin. I’m actually just a member of the product management and design team.
More Crow, Please
Well, now I feel silly. Earlier this evening, I wrote a blog post about the boycott against the pro-SOPA crowd; SOPA is the bill to
SOPA Witch-Hunters, Count Me Out
UPDATE: I was wrong in this post in saying that a boycott stifles free speech. A boycott is a form of free speech. I retracted