- NASA's requested budget of $19 billion is a true bargain. You are benefitting from space-program developments you probably have never heard of. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nasas-requested-budget-of-19-billion-is-a-true-bargain-2017-03-06 30 comments space
- [E] Which of these topics are useful/useless for probability theory and/or probabilistic programming? http://webppl.org/ 15 comments statistics
- [Nathan Brown] Toto Wolff's thoughts about the potential addition of Andretti Global to F1: "I'm sure if we had a true American team w/ an American driver, it would be very beneficial, but...each of the programs up here have invested probably $1 billion into their F1 projects (recently)..." https://twitter.com/By_NathanBrown/status/1522955761042989057?s=20&t=7uGgiJNriM29PB3SiVQnww 130 comments formula1
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i 639 comments programming
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://xsinor.com 29 comments programming
- The Trump Administration Says a New Bailout Program Will Help 35 Million Americans. It Probably Won’t. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-says-a-new-bailout-program-will-help-35-million-americans-it-probably-wont 7 comments politics
- How can I write a prompt (probably as a standalone shell script?) which returns a string to a program (which is invoked by a different program? https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs/XMonad-Prompt-Pass.html 2 comments xmonad
- Probably just found the best website for learning a programming language https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/b0cm22/probably_just_found_the_best_website_for_learning/ 95 comments learnprogramming
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ 1043 comments programming
- antirez: I followed the initial parts of the golang online tutorial, and probably it’s one of the best languages for a newbie to approach programming. Low level enough to understand what’s really going on, high level enough to start without fighting with machine-level concepts. https://twitter.com/antirez/status/975410805763182592?s=09 50 comments programming
- antirez: I followed the initial parts of the golang online tutorial, and probably it’s one of the best languages for a newbie to approach programming. Low level enough to understand what’s really going on, high level enough to start without fighting with machine-level concepts. https://twitter.com/antirez/status/975410805763182592?s=09 51 comments golang
- Bill Belichick: “Chris Long did a great job for us. There was no better teammate or guy that tried to embrace the program than Chris, but in the end he probably has a better fit there for his skills and for this point in his career than maybe we had for him. He probably made a good decision.” http://www.espn.com/blog/new-england-patriots/post/_/id/4810905/bill-belichick-says-chris-long-probably-made-right-call-for-him-leaving-patriots 214 comments nfl
- Trump Says Program To Protect Dreamers Is 'Probably Dead,' Blames Democrats https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-says-daca-is-probably-dead-blames-democrats_us_5a5be474e4b04f3c55a3cf04?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 7 comments politics
- Trump says program to protect ‘Dreamers’ is ‘probably dead’ https://apnews.com/8fdda3dba11c4d578b8020f5c4dd558c/trump-says-program-to-protect-'dreamers'-is-'probably-dead' 51 comments politics
- Hopes for immigration deal fade as lawmakers trade barbs and Trump declares dreamer program ‘probably dead’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hopes-for-immigration-deal-fade-as-lawmakers-trade-barbs-and-trump-declares-dreamer-program-probably-dead/2018/01/14/247bd8ee-f8ac-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_shutdown-1109am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9f74d0a47feb 11 comments politics
- President Trump Says DACA Program is 'Probably Dead' http://time.com/5102693/president-trump-daca-tweet/ 3 comments politics
- Trump says program protecting young immigrants 'probably dead' https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/trump-says-program-protecting-young-immigrants-probably-dead-iduskbn1f30ma 4 comments politics
- Trump says program protecting young immigrants 'probably dead' http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/iduskbn1f30ma?__twitter_impression=true 13 comments politics
- [C] Program to process and sort very large text files. My attempts behave weird or end up crashing, need help debugging. WARNING: long, complicated and probably messed up in many ways. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/5l9dqq/c_program_to_process_and_sort_very_large_text/ 2 comments learnprogramming
- Chaitin's constant informally represents the probability that a randomly constructed program will halt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chaitin%27s_constant 12 comments math
- [C#] Probably my most complex program to date. Feedback welcome. http://pastebin.com/cinsbGPr 27 comments learnprogramming
- Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business | 1979 memo: "It behooves us to start a very aggressive defensive program in the indicated areas of atmospheric science and climate because there is a good probability that legislation affecting our business will be passed." http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business 3 comments business
- Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business | 1979 memo: "It behooves us to start a very aggressive defensive program in the indicated areas of atmospheric science and climate because there is a good probability that legislation affecting our business will be passed." http://insideclimatenews.org/news/16092015/exxon-believed-deep-dive-into-climate-research-would-protect-its-business 29 comments worldnews
- Maintainer, sole developer, and probably the sole active user of the programming language SPITBOL http://daveshields.me/2012/09/02/on-being-the-maintainer-sole-developer-and-probably-the-sole-active-user-of-the-programming-language-spitbol/ 70 comments programming
- ESPN's Ed Werder reports free agent Dez Bryant would "probably" skip the Cowboys' offseason program if franchise tagged. https://twitter.com/edwerderespn/status/567797433847001088 305 comments nfl
- [Java] Question: PokerHand program is returning experimental probability results that are virtually always below the expected probability for straights http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkapjava/html/thinkjava017.html#toc153 32 comments learnprogramming
- Detroit landlords cash in on rent aid, ignore tax bills. Detroit News investigation found about 1 in 4 Detroit landlords paid to rent to poor families through the state’s Housing Choice Voucher program collectively owe the city at least $5 million in back taxes and probably much more. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140328/metro01/303280040/detroit-landlords-cash-rent-aid-ignore-tax-bills 14 comments economy
- Anti-NSA activists adopt highway around NSA data center: Anti-government activists have figured out a way to keep tabs on the NSA in probably the greatest way ever: by exploiting the Adopt-a-Highway program. http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/09/anti-nsa-activists-adopt-highway-around-nsa-data-center/ 16 comments politics
- Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9132061/old_school_programming_techniques_you_probably_don_t_miss 165 comments programming
- How algorithms secretly shape the way we behave. Algorithms, the key ingredients of all significant computer programs, have probably influenced your Christmas shopping and may one day determine how you vote http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/16/networker-algorithms-john-naughton 7 comments technology
- Iran's nuclear program: 4 things you probably didn't know http://www.csmonitor.com/world/middle-east/2012/0608/iran-s-nuclear-program-4-things-you-probably-didn-t-know/president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-never-said-that-israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-map. 7 comments worldnews
- Probably not much to most of you but here is my first program. Looking for general criticisms and suggestions. https://gist.github.com/2837774 4 comments learnprogramming
- crosspost programming: "I think it would be nice if every math course spent a full week just introducing you to the subject, in the most fun way possible, so you know why the heck you're learning it. Heck, that's probably true for every course." http://steve-yegge.blogspot.de/2006/03/math-for-programmers.html 13 comments math
- The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/us-iran-usa-nuclear-idusbre82m0g020120323 5 comments worldnews
- I'm streaming me developing an indie game. (3D modeling, 2D art, and programming in C#/XNA). I'll probably stream every day for the rest of my life. http://www.twitch.tv/clania 7 comments gamedev
- The IT Crowd, the Best Television Program You Have Probably Never Heard of http://www.writingtech.com/journal/2010/9/27/the-it-crowd-the-best-television-program-you-have-probably-n.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Progressive Programs on MSNBC are in Danger. Comcast is Probably Going to Take it Over and Scarborough Got Markos Banned. http://blog.buzzflash.com/honors/366 16 comments politics
- The horrible bug your command-line Perl program probably has http://perlbuzz.com/2009/11/the-horrible-bug-your-command-line-perl-program-probably-has.html 8 comments perl
- The Probability Monad: probability distributions as a programming environment http://slawekk.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/probability-monad/ 15 comments programming
- Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss (and can blissfully forget) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewarticlebasic&articleid=9132061 10 comments programming