{"id":81,"date":"2003-03-29T21:54:16","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2003-03-29T21:54:16","modified_gmt":"2003-03-30T02:54:16","slug":"should-be-doing-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/29\/should-be-doing-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"should be doing assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I should be doing all these uni assignments I&#8217;ve got. But seriously, fuck the coursework. I much prefer the project. Solving a tricky problem with some research potential. Now *that&#8217;s* fun!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s not only the opportunity to work on an exciting OS (Linux) but also for something that&#8217;s even newer and weirder (Walnut). Although there&#8217;s no way in hell I&#8217;m touching Walnut code for a while yet. 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What&#8217;s more, there&#8217;s not only the opportunity to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/29\/should-be-doing-assignments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-1j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/04\/busy-busy-busy\/","url_meta":{"origin":81,"position":0},"title":"busy busy busy","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-02-04","format":false,"excerpt":"busy, busy busy. 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