Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day, in an effortless style, and always expresses a clear idea. Yesterday he wrote an essay that was still with me when I woke up this morning, and with me on […]
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Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day, in an effortless style, and always expresses a clear idea. Yesterday he wrote an essay that was still with me when I woke up this morning, and with me on
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As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in her 20 years at Starbucks. We expected someone with that much experience to be deep into middle age but in fact she started at Starbucks as a barista while she
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When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly appealing when content is “below the fold.” However when that content is cached, you want to serve it up as quickly as possible. If you’ve already calculated the content, you’d
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Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged Congress to let it expire. But now that the federal credit has finally expired, the $24,000 question is how the market will respond. It will take months to sort this
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago. It’s pretty much invisible to our end users, but we’re so happy with it that we wanted to give the folks who made Varnish their props in public. It has
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