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I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?

by ltbarcly3 10y ago

geooooooooobox 10y ago
Apparently to some folks and the rules of this place, people can post things that are fairly interesting. So -shrugs-
geodel 10y ago
I think Franz Kafka is lot more interesting than yet another Apache Java project.
- yolesaber 10y ago
  Hey! An open source distributed messaging stream is just not another Apache Java project. Kafka's made my life a lot easier at work.
  - wruza 10y ago
    >made my life a lot easier at work Was it just an enhancement or complete metamorphosis?
    - yolesaber 10y ago
      A country doctor recommended it to us. We put it through the trial and then went to the judgement. All in all it saved us a lot of money and we are hunger artists no more.
      - sten 10y ago
        I feel that I've missed something nice here. I'll have to read more.
PanosJee 10y ago
Because an employed engineer is such a higher form of existence
- justin_vanw 10y ago
  Who said or implied that?
icanhackit 10y ago
A bit of both. Count me as an employed procrastinating philosopher.
dang 10y ago
Please 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 ago
  On 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 ago
    On 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 ago
    As 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 ago
  I'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 ago
Wow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.
PaulRobinson 10y ago
Good coders know what they are doing is applied philosophy.
- justin_vanw 10y ago
  This is just a tautology, since by the same logic every activity that requires any kind of thought is just 'applied philosophy'.

I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?

geooooooooobox 10y ago

Apparently to some folks and the rules of this place, people can post things that are fairly interesting. So -shrugs-

geodel 10y ago

I think Franz Kafka is lot more interesting than yet another Apache Java project.

yolesaber 10y ago
Hey! An open source distributed messaging stream is just not another Apache Java project. Kafka's made my life a lot easier at work.
- wruza 10y ago
  >made my life a lot easier at work Was it just an enhancement or complete metamorphosis?
  - yolesaber 10y ago
    A country doctor recommended it to us. We put it through the trial and then went to the judgement. All in all it saved us a lot of money and we are hunger artists no more.
    - sten 10y ago
      I feel that I've missed something nice here. I'll have to read more.

PanosJee 10y ago

Because an employed engineer is such a higher form of existence

justin_vanw 10y ago
Who said or implied that?

icanhackit 10y ago

A bit of both. Count me as an employed procrastinating philosopher.

dang 10y ago

Please 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 ago
On 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 ago
  On 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 ago
  As 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 ago
I'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 ago

Wow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.

PaulRobinson 10y ago

Good coders know what they are doing is applied philosophy.

justin_vanw 10y ago
This is just a tautology, since by the same logic every activity that requires any kind of thought is just 'applied philosophy'.