Swift - Displaying Actionsheet for Ipad and Iphone

Swift - Displaying Actionsheet for Ipad and IphoneA simple tutorial on making an alert view of type action sheet that works for iphone and ipad.1.) First you'll need a button where you can attach your pop over when you're...

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Oljefondets informasjonsstrategi

Oljefondet må slutte å plage seg selv. Fondets informasjonsstrategi har så langt ikke resultert i annet enn mistenksomhet og mistillit. Det er ekstremt vanskelig å få ut informasjon fra Oljefondets forvalter NBIM. DN måtte...

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Poland vs the United States: suburban sprawl

This is the eighth article in a short series about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire series, start here.If you live in any other western country, your perception of the United States is bound to be profoundly influenced by Hollywood. You may think you're immune to it, but...

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Poland vs the United States: friends & acquaintances

This is the seventh article in a short series about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire series, start here.Cultural stereotypes are a dangerous and corrosive thing. They teach us that Poles are a tribe of thieving simpletons; or that Americans are arrogant, violent, and obese....

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Poland vs the United States: civil liberties

This is the sixth article in a short series about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire series, start here.I opened my comparison of Poland and the US with the topic of firearm ownership. I decided to take this route in part because of how alien the US gun culture may appear to...

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A bit more on firearms in the US

This is the fifth article in a short series about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire series, start here.Perhaps not surprisingly, my previous blog post sparked several interesting discussions with my Polish friends who took a more decisive view of the social costs of firearm...

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Competitive Innovation

In my previous post I took a crack at understanding Paul Romer's mathiness critique. As far as the post related to Romer (most of it was devoted to Brad DeLong's careless embellishment of the idea), my assessment...

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How to migrate your Godaddy web hosting to DigitalOcean

Lately I've been reading some good articles about DigitalOcean as a cheap VPS option in online hosting and so I decided to try and subscribe to one.Since my wordpress website hosting is already expiring I decided to moved...

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Poland vs the United States: firearms

This is the fourth article in a short series about Poland, Europe, and the United States. To explore the entire series, click here.I spent roughly half of my adult life in Poland; for the other half, we lived in the United States. Because of this, my Polish friends sometimes ask about the cultural differences...

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New in AFL: persistent mode

Although American Fuzzy Lop comes with a couple of nifty performance optimizations, it still relies on a fairly resource-intensive routine that is common to most general-purpose fuzzers: it continually creates new processes, feeds them a single test case, and then discards them to start over from scratch.To...

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How to generate wadl via maven plugin

So you've written your web service and would now want to create the wadl for it. Assuming you have your web project in eclipse with maven integrated this is what you have to do: 1.) Add the lines below to your pom, you may want to create it's own profile. For example api. <plugin> <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>...

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In the after-mathiness of discontent

If you're like me, you're probably still trying to wrap your mind around the debate on "mathiness" in the economics profession. I haven't put an inordinate amount of time into the project, but I have made an honest effort...

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