{"id":696,"date":"2005-12-29T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:21:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:21:13","slug":"the-perils-of-javaschools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/12\/29\/the-perils-of-javaschools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of JavaSchools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever happened to hard work?<\/p>\n

A sure sign of my descent into senility is bitchin’ and moanin’ about “kids these days,” and how they won’t or can’t do anything hard any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, how true it is. I think FSC started teaching Java the year after I left. Thank goodness I got a quick intro to Pascal and then 3 years of C.<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing here<\/a> from Joel On Software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whatever happened to hard work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-be","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6302,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/03\/01\/the-past-that-never-happened\/","url_meta":{"origin":696,"position":0},"title":"The Past That Never Happened","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I think about all this \"back to the good old days\" rhetoric and I'm like, \"sure, let's go back to the 50s or whatever when we all inhaled lead fumes and other chemicals, suffered through diseases like polio and the measles, and oh yeah, lived under the constant shadow\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2872,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/12\/31\/looking-back-2000-2009\/","url_meta":{"origin":696,"position":1},"title":"Looking Back, 2000 – 2009","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Keith looks back at the last 10 years: 2000 - 2009, the first decade of the 21st century.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6421,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/07\/04\/rip-usa\/","url_meta":{"origin":696,"position":2},"title":"RIP USA","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"RIP, United States of America: In Congress, July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2025.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1144,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/04\/xenophobia\/","url_meta":{"origin":696,"position":3},"title":"Xenophobia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been noticing a disturbing trend lately - people are becoming more and more xenophobic. 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