Whoa! Redfin just launched a big new upgrade on our website, showing customers our real estate agents‘ comments about the listings we’ve toured. We call these notes Agent Insights: The big upgrade also shares private comments about each listing with the listing agent: the tool we use to schedule and track tours prompts our agents […]
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Boilerplate code to wrap implementations of important JDBC interfaces
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You know those movies where someone accidentally discovers the truth behind a great secret, in a warehouse of UFOs or a file on who shot JFK? It’s always a curse. The witness can never tell anyone what he saw on the other side: he gets shot, or committed to an insane asylum, or he becomes complicit
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Entrepreneurs often ask me where good ideas come from. My answer usually is from bad companies. The most obvious example of this is Facebook. MySpace prospered despite its founders’ penchant for pornography, spam and spyware. San Franciscans loved Friendster despite the reputed self-destructiveness of its founder, Jonathan Abrams. Was it really so hard to imagine
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At breakfast earlier this month, my friend Roy Gilbert made an offhand reference to two types of people, knowers and learners. It was a distinction I’d never heard before. But I liked the idea of identifying someone as a learner, just because it’s so hard to make any change to our identity, unless part of
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Last night, we flipped the switch on a different data source that gives us a more complete picture of the number of foreclosed homes that are not yet listed for sale. This is a part of what a lot of people refer to as the shadow inventory — homes that have been foreclosed upon by
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