What kind of funny is Kafka?
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What kind of funny is Kafka?
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Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#2Did anyone else make it all the way to the word 'Franz' thinking this was going to talk about the distributed commit log service?
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#3Did anyone else make it all the way to the word 'Franz' thinking this was going to talk about the distributed commit log service?
You sir just saved me a lot of reading (not that its a bad article). I'm currently working on leveraging the distributed commit log service so my mind immediately assumed that's what the article was about.
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#4David Foster Wallace also has a good essay on this in Consider the Lobster. I think this is the same one:
http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-0...
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#5Did anyone else make it all the way to the word 'Franz' thinking this was going to talk about the distributed commit log service?
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a high-throughput distributed messaging system."
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#6Did anyone else make it all the way to the word 'Franz' thinking this was going to talk about the distributed commit log service?
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a high-throughput distributed messaging system."
I'd really like to read this story, although I'd envision the ending closer to Animal Farm than The Metamorphosis. After all, I don't think a distributed, persistent messaging service is quite as shameful/unclean and useless as a cockroach/vermin thing.
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a high-throughput distributed messaging system."
I'd really like to read this story, although I'd envision the ending closer to Animal Farm than The Metamorphosis. After all, I don't think a distributed, persistent messaging service is quite as shameful/unclean and useless as a cockroach/vermin thing.
Any kind of complicated system can contain quite nasty bugs and being distributed one doesn't really help in this regard.
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#8The kind of funny where you deplore your best friend to burn all your writings after you die but then he publishes them anyway. "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Max_Brod
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#9The kind of funny where you deplore your best friend to burn all your writings after you die but then he publishes them anyway. "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#Max_Brod
You mean Kafka implored Brod, and /then/ he deplored him, posthumously...
Re: What kind of funny is Kafka?
#10Did anyone else make it all the way to the word 'Franz' thinking this was going to talk about the distributed commit log service?
Not at all. The fact that Franz Kafka is my favorite writer makes me think of Franz before Apache every time ;) But I must admit that I was very curious about a Franz Kafka siting on HN ;)