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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan spoke about her recent encounter with President-elect Donald Trump after purposefully avoiding him for eight years, revealing the concern she had that his “charming” personality would cloud her judgment. “I never met Trump until two or three weeks ago,” Noonan said in a recent conversation with The Free Press […]
Black Friday sales have gone from one-day in-person shopping bonanzas to a multiday deals extravaganza. It’s tempting to give in to the seasonal pressures to shop, but knowing the tricks companies use to make sales so appealing can help us avoid overconsumption. Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a professor of consumer psychology at Anglia Ruskin University in England, […]
Welcome back! As Black Friday deals start rolling in, you might be looking to update your wardrobe. Before you buy any shoes, check out what trends stylists say are in (and out) this season. In today’s big story, Trump’s trade plans could spell trouble for prices, and preparing for it isn’t so easy. What’s on […]
Households across the UK can save money on their energy bills by avoiding one common heating mistake this winter. According to new research by David Wilson Homes, some 48 percent of homeowners are unsure whether viral hacks, such as painting radiators black or leaving appliances on standby, actually help to cut the costs of their […]
“Most implementations are viewed as IT projects,” says Tim Hertzig, a principal in Deloitte’s Technology practice and global product owner of Deloitte’s Ascend digital transformation solution. “These projects fail to achieve the value they initially aspire to, because they don’t factor in change management that ensures adoption and they don’t consider industry-leading practices.”’ Technology rarely […]
In the UK, the use of mobile signal boosters is regulated by Ofcom. Here we have put together a list of those mobile signal booster shops to avoid and those who are genuine sellers. With a selection of websites, and a huge price variation across different booster models it’s hard to know what equipment is […]
Swift’s implementation of enums is, without a doubt, one of the most beloved and powerful features that the language has to offer. The fact that Swift enums go way beyond simple enumerations of integer-based constants, and support things like associated values and sophisticated pattern matching, makes them a great candidate for solving many different kinds […]
In general, using computed properties can be a great way to model view-specific data that we want to create on-demand, when need — especially within SwiftUI views, since each such view already uses a computed property (body) to implement its actual UI. For example, here we’re using two computed properties to determine what title and […]
Changing line heights in Android using LineHeightSpan has this ugly side-effect where the cursor ends up being very tall, extending till the full line height instead of just the text height. I’ve decided to go to extreme lengths to fix this over the next few days. For science. pic.twitter.com/2tWLvDq1rz — Saket Narayan (@Saketme) November 24, […]