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Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
- Cidan 10y agoMy initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."
- maxaf 10y agoFor those of us who have positioned their residences underneath rocks: is there a link to this?
- 4d7XJlq9Y1C7 10y agohttps://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/03/spotifys-event-delivery-the-road-to-the-cloud-part-ii/ https://labs.spotify.com/2016/03/03/spotifys-event-delivery-...
- thewarrior 10y agoA nice companion to the other thread where people are saying that the government shouldn't pay to educate their citizens in the liberal arts :P ...
- samkone 10y agoSo ???
- ltbarcly3 10y agoI was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
- geooooooooobox 10y agoApparently to some folks and the rules of this place, people can post things that are fairly interesting. So -shrugs-
- geodel 10y agoI think Franz Kafka is lot more interesting than yet another Apache Java project.
- PanosJee 10y agoBecause an employed engineer is such a higher form of existence
- justin_vanw 10y agoWho said or implied that?
- icanhackit 10y agoA bit of both. Count me as an employed procrastinating philosopher.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't post this sort of swipe. It's fine if you're uninterested in (Franz) Kafka; plenty of the rest of us are, and the submission is perfectly on topic. It's in HN's DNA (not to mention the opening paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that it covers a wide range of topics, far beyond just computing, tech, and startups and definitely including arts and letters, among other things. Historical material is welcome too. Acting like the rarer species should be wiped out is a lame way to treat this site.
- StevePerkins 10y agoOn the other hand, when a title is going to mislead and confuse most readers, it would be courteous to extend or clarify the title such as: "(Franz) Kafka: An End or a Beginning?" That is, unless the goal is to mislead and feel smug about it.
- zellyn 10y agoOn my screen, it shows up as "Kafka: An End or a Beginning? (lareviewofbooks.org)" which was all the information I needed to determine that it related to the Author before clicking through.
- dang 10y agoAs both zellyn and the site guidelines point out, the domain name is part of the title here, so it wasn't as ambiguous as all that. Not spoon-feeding readers is part of what makes HN HN.
- justin_vanw 10y agoI've been on HN for about 10 years now... It used to be 99.99% on topic stories about startups and technology. Now it's just random 'interesting' things? That's what reddit is for IMO.
- somedudetbh 10y agoWow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.
- PaulRobinson 10y agoGood coders know what they are doing is applied philosophy.
- justin_vanw 10y agoThis is just a tautology, since by the same logic every activity that requires any kind of thought is just 'applied philosophy'.
- baldeagle 10y agoThe author, not the streaming product.
- andrewclunn 10y agoI find that Kafka loses his zeal when the uncertainty of an unformed epistemology is removed. It's in the circular questioning of subjectivity and post modernism that his work takes hold. Move beyond that and what was once existential horror in his writing becomes trivial nuisance.
- apocalypstyx 10y agoMy problem with shunting Kafka into post-modernism is it becomes too much a grab bag. Just like they try to vacuum up Cervantes and Sterne, aswell. Kakfa died 40 years before post-modernism; (and Cervantes 343 and Sterne 191). But it brings to my mind a broader point: McHale's notion: intractable epistemological uncertainty becomes at a certain point ontological plurality or instability: push epistemological questions far enough and they "tip over" into ontological questions. (I personally prefer the epistemological/ontological definition of modernism/post-modernism, especially here where we have Kakfa who could best be define (if anything) as a modernist writer being shoved into post-modern space.) So is the shunting of a collective and ancient epistemological and ontological uncertainty an attempt to neutralize its implications? A question I think partly arises from something about your use of 'uncertainty' and 'unformed' here, which keeps occurring to me in terms of the excess of its vital substance and becoming: too much certainty/too much form tipping over into no certainty at all/formlessness. Just as defining the question (and no matter what anyone else argues Hitchhiker's Guide is my favorite example of this in fiction) for the answer of '42' as 'How many roads must a man walk down?' provides a solution, is it any more than a placebo affect? that at its core highlights the instability of our epistemological and ontological positions more intensely than a blank answer would have (and thereby beats us all over the head with a teleological hammer).
- foota 10y agoQueues have both a front and end.