In the beginning, finding an internship seemed daunting. Working as a peer advisor in the University of Washington’s Career Center during my junior year, I already knew all too well the struggles involved in searching, applying, and achieving any position at all, let alone one that checked off certain boxes – one that was tailored… Read More
My internship at Redfin has been somewhat of an untraditional one. I just finished my PhD in biostatistics this spring, a journey that took six years to complete. I had been in school my whole life, spent many of those years doing research, and had never really tried anything outside of academia. As graduation neared,… Read More
Once upon a time, I found myself having a crisis of identity about whether Computer Science was really for me. It was my Junior year of college and I had just finished up back-to-back internships at Amazon and Google. Some detached part of me reasoned that I was destined for CS to have played with… Read More
This past weekend I had the privilege of representing Redfin as a mentor at the PennApps 48-hour hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In addition to having sponsors help cover the cost of the event, PennApps invited companies to send along representatives to help answer questions that students might have during the competition…. Read More
Neil Armstrong’s gone. Let’s not let the spirit of Apollo die with him. A reporter once asked Neil Armstrong to comment on the conspiracy theory that the U.S. had faked his famous lunar landing. He chuckled and said that it didn’t bother him, “because I know that one day somebody’s going to fly back up… Read More
A logo is the main identifier of a brand and the company. Consistency with shape, color, and positioning is vital to help build recognition. Much like a name, a logo is for identification, not explanation. It is there to symbolize the quality, tone and motivation of the company. A logo doesn’t literally describe what a… Read More
I met Jane and Vince for the first time in early February. At the time I still had no idea what I would be doing this summer, so I was at a career fair at Berkeley, talking to every recruiter who gave me the time. I hadn’t heard of Redfin before, so I stopped by… Read More
Defining data feeds that need to be consumed elsewhere might seem like a “solved” problem, simply because there are so many data feeds and standards out there in the wild. But, as the story below demonstrates, there are a lot of subtleties that need to be considered when determining how to represent each piece of… Read More
Update as of 22 Oct 2012 – the latest version of Eclipse Juno now saves toolbar state across application launches. Great news! The original blog post is preserved below. If you’ve upgraded to the latest version of Eclipse, you’ve probably noticed two things: the new UI is not particularly attractive more importantly, there’s no way… Read More
Managing a Google Analytics account for a large site with a long tail of content can be frustrating. In my experience, the biggest reasons are sampling and the dreaded 50,000 limit where GA only reports on your first 50k URLs hit each day, lumping everything else into an “(other)” bucket. While you can make both problems… Read More