I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
Because an employed engineer is such a higher form of existence
Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
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#12I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
A bit of both. Count me as an employed procrastinating philosopher.
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#13I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
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) 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.
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#14I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
Wow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.
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#15My initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."
A 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 ...
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Franz Kafka is lot more interesting than yet another Apache Java project.
Hey! An open source distributed messaging stream is just not another Apache Java project. Kafka's made my life a lot easier at work.
>made my life a lot easier at work
Was it just an enhancement or complete metamorphosis?
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#17I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
Good coders know what they are doing is applied philosophy.
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#18Queues have both a front and end.
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#19I was looking for an article about the Kafka queue system. Is this hackernews or unemployed philosopher news?
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 ) that it covers a wide range of topics, far beyond just computing, tech, and startups and definitely including arts and letters, among other things. Hi…
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.
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#20My initial thought before reading the article was "Well, Spotify did just move off of it..."
So ???