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- Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/the-best-ways-to-find-bugs-in-your-code/ 47 comments
- A decade of developing a programming language https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/a-decade-of-developing-a-programming-language/ 139 comments
- Trump could miss deadline to set a quota for refugees arriving in the US in 2021, putting the decades-old resettlement program at risk https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-could-miss-deadline-to-set-refugee-quota-resettlement-program-2020-9 5 comments politics
- Decades of Suspicions: Did German Companies Aid Syrian Chemical Weapons Program? http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-companies-suspected-of-aiding-syrian-chemical-weapons-program-a-1014722.html 3 comments worldnews
- Republicans to propose $40 billion cut over decade to food stamps program http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/02/19831109-republicans-to-propose-40-billion-cut-over-decade-to-food-stamps-program?lite 15 comments politics
- British Parliament votes to renew nuclear weapons program for 3 more decades http://mobile.reuters.com/article/iduskcn0zy2m8 7 comments worldnews
- After 2 Decades Moscow, US End Nuclear Cooperation Program http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150120/1017108681.html 14 comments worldnews
- The measure calls for $40 billion in cuts over a decade to the federal food stamp program http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/18/223627228/house-bill-would-cut-40-billion-from-food-stamp-program 149 comments politics
- Delayed By A Decade - Dassault (Rafale) CEO Says Its Sixth-Gen Fighter Program Might Take Off In 2050 https://eurasiantimes.com/rafale-ceo-says-its-sixth-gen-fighter-program-2050/ 101 comments europe
- Saudi Press: We Must Have A Military Nuclear Program Within A Decade http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8671.htm 33 comments worldnews
- US Drone Program May Have Helped Turkey Kill Kurds for Over a Decade https://truthout.org/articles/us-drone-program-may-have-helped-turkey-kill-kurds-for-over-a-decade/ 18 comments politics
- US Drone Program May Have Helped Turkey Kill Kurds for Over a Decade https://truthout.org/articles/us-drone-program-may-have-helped-turkey-kill-kurds-for-over-a-decade/ 8 comments worldnews
- "Through this program, code-named Hemisphere, police tap into trillions of of phone records going back decades." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/and-after-what-we-learned-about-hemisphere-program-after-suing-dea 3 comments privacy
- Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Lied' About Its Nuclear Program, but Israel Has Been Lying for Decades https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/netanyahu-claims-iran-lied-but-israel-has-been-lying-for-decades-1.6052474 39 comments politics
- Trump's Nominee to Oversee Superfund Program Spent Decades Fighting EPA Cleanups on Behalf of Polluters https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/epa-superfund-scott-pruitt-peter-wright/ 4 comments politics
- (AP) -- For the first time in more than a decade, the federal government is funding sex education programs that aren't based solely on abstinence http://galvestondailynews.com/apnews?report=/dynamic/stories/u/us_sex_ed_revised 507 comments science
- Conservative Austerity Created the Mask Wars | Decades of attacks on public programs have led us to a point where we’re arguing about personal responsibility in the midst of a pandemic https://newrepublic.com/article/158359/conservative-austerity-created-mask-wars 145 comments politics
- In the early 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But the story of her crewmates was classified. Moscow shut the program down, and hid its existence for decades. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-first-women-trained-to-conquer-space 172 comments history
- "This Republican budget throws 27 million Americans off health insurance, slashes $5 trillion over the coming decade from programs that help working families, cuts taxes on the richest Americans and raises them on working families with kids." http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senate-budget-throws-27-million-off-health-insurance 59 comments politics
- Coal miners lose safety nets as black lung programs collapse under Trump. A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been suspended. “It’s going to be devastating to miners. Nobody is going to be monitoring the mines.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91320718/coal-miners-lose-safety-nets-as-black-lung-programs-collapse-under-trump 220 comments energy
- Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient | A decades-old home weatherization program has become central to the administration’s plans to cut Americans’ power bills and lower fossil fuel emissions https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/ 8 comments politics
- Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient | A decades-old home weatherization program has become central to the administration’s plans to cut Americans’ power bills and lower fossil fuel emissions https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/ 3 comments climate
- Ending College Affirmative Action Could Have Ripple Effect for Black, Latino Students| As affirmative action programs face their biggest threat in decades, experts say Black and Latino students would experience fewer job and financial opportunities. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/ending-college-affirmative-action-could-have-ripple-effect-for-black-latino-students/2624206/ 40 comments politics
- Psaki: "The President ran on and won the most votes of any candidate in history on a platform of boosting funding for law enforcement after Republicans spent decades trying to cut the COPS program...the President ran on increasing that funding." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/07/02/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-director-of-the-national-economic-council-brian-deese-july-2-2021/ 46 comments politics
- In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice. In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions. And in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries https://moores.samaltman.com/ 65 comments artificial
- Gpg4win: An example of excellent software, still updating after many years! Anyone have other good software examples? I have been using this program for DECADES, and it has never let me down. I would love to learn about any other GOOD software. Such as Foobar2000 or other music playing softeare https://www.gpg4win.org/ 7 comments software
- In the early 1960s Soviet Russia trained an all-female space squad in absolute secrecy. One of these cosmonauts — Valentina Tereshkova — became the first woman in space. But after she returned to Earth, Moscow shut the program down and hid the existence of her female squadmates for decades. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/the-first-women-trained-to-conquer-space 4 comments space
- A Filipina maid was executed this week in Saudi Arabia, a death that an advocacy group called “another casualty of the Philippine government’s decades-old labor export program” https://nyti.ms/2uxrcs6 99 comments worldnews
- House GOP Budget Cuts Programs Aiding Low- and Moderate-Income People by $2.9 Trillion Over Decade https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/house-gop-budget-cuts-programs-aiding-low-and-moderate-income-people-by-29 11 comments politics
- A key House appropriator hinted Tuesday he may block another funding increase for the Department of Veterans Affairs next year, noting more than a decade of steady spending boosts for veterans programs. http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/capitol-hill/2016/03/02/house-appropriations-va-budget-2017-fight/81220918/ 3 comments politics
- "...Americans can expect over the next decade to pay over $13 trillion in, what amounts to, private taxes imposed by insurers on behalf of the government that mandates that we have health insurance. Add to this, another $5 trillion that under the Clinton health program we can expect to pay..." http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2016/01/chelsea-clinton-is-confused-about-single-payer.html 53 comments politics
- The GOP budgets proposed in Congress would cut about $5 trillion over the next decade. The overwhelming burden would fall on programs that boost working families: education, Medicare and Medicaid, college aid, job training, medical research and rebuilding roads and bridges. http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/236658-stark-choices-peoples-budget-vs-republican-plan 321 comments politics
- Senate GOP budget to break with Paul Ryan’s blueprints: Senate Republicans will not include detailed plans to overhaul entitlement programs when they unveil their first budget in nearly a decade this week, according to GOP sources. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/235699-senate-gop-budget-to-break-with-paul-ryans-blueprints 18 comments politics
- Ron Wyden: "For years, officials of intelligence agencies like the NSA, as well as the Department of Justice, made misleading and outright inaccurate statements to Congress about data surveillance programs — not once, but repeatedly for over a decade." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1215-wyden-backdoor-for-cell-phones-20141215-story.html 229 comments politics
- The Justice Department has released two decade-old memos which offer the fullest public airing to date of the Bush administration’s legal justification for the warrantless wiretapping of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails — a program that began in secret after the 2001 terrorist attacks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/legal-memos-released-on-bush-era-justification-for-warrantless-wiretapping/2014/09/05/91b86c52-356d-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html?tid=hpmodule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394 34 comments politics
- Nearly two decades ago, a landmark study found that by age 3, the children of wealthier professionals have heard words millions more times than those of less educated parents, giving them a distinct advantage in school and suggesting the need for increased investment in prekindergarten programs. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/us/language-gap-study-bolsters-a-push-for-pre-k.html?hp&_r=1& 3 comments politics
- Health Care Solution is Simple: Single-Payer | It is far from rocket science. What this country simply needs is a single-payer national health insurance program that covers all American citizens from the day they’re born to the day they die - just as other advanced countries have done for decades. http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/article_e26dbb61-a1d2-5a03-86b6-ff2e6524596f.html 575 comments politics
- For decades, supporters of a strong American space program have dreamed of an American president throwing the weight of his office behind sending humans to Mars, developing a new deep space vehicle and the heavy lift booster to carry it beyond the Earth http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-buzz-aldrin-has-high-praise-for-obamas-space-program-goals/19442999 7 comments science
- The Pentagon budget has more than doubled in the last decade, to over $800,000,000,000 per year (almost *ten times* what health care reform would cost), yet talk of cutting it remains taboo. One reason: It's a giant government jobs program immune to GOP taunts of "Socialism." http://www.cnn.com/2010/politics/02/24/fact.check.pentagon.irpt/index.html?hpt=c2 119 comments politics
- NASA is putting the finishing touches on plans for its first new aeronautics research program in almost a decade knowing that any shift away from human spaceflight will increase the pressure to produce results aircraft manufacturers and operators can use. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/nasa090409.xml&headline=nasa%20aeronautics%20research%20program%20ready 28 comments science