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Vedor commented on The Whole App is a Blob drobinin.com/posts/the-wh... · Posted by u/valzevul

That’s an unhelpful take, if you expect everyone to be fluent in the language of the country they’re traveling to.

Another note: I live in Cambodia, where many French people live, and nearly none of them speak the local language, and a very decent amount of them don’t even speak English. Worse yet, the older generation is still hung up in the idea that it’s better for the locals to learn French than English or Chinese.

This is really a very French thing, and you don’t see the same behavior in eg Germany or Italy.

(I’m originally from The Netherlands)

Vedor · 4 days ago

I'm from Poland, but my grandma was living in Germany (Essen). When I was (rarely, she was visiting Poland much more often) visiting her I definitely experienced similar behaviour from Germans.

My German is very poor, I used to somewhat understand what was spoken to me (if simple language was used), and to speak is short, basic sentences with shortage of vocabulary. This is just to provide some context - I never actually tried to learn German.

So I was trying to use English as often as possible. A lot of people - and I mean persons like clerks, salespersons, not random passers-by - either straight-up ignored me, or issuing comments like "Du solltest Sprachen lernen".

On the other hand, I never had similar experience when I was speaking broken French in France (or Marocco).

Please note that I don't want to bash Germans or to defend French. But it all depends on who you encounter - but these encounters might on some level shape your opinion on the whole nation no matter of you want it or not

Vedor commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Vedor · 2 months ago

Location: Poland, Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship

Remote: preferred; I am also open for hybrid work in my region

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mobile testing, Python, Lua, Jira, Redmine, Git, Iron Source, AppsFlyer, adb, Firebase; currently learning Docker and Playwright

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P2b3JgLrX4KMVAHnKDtZChdT7_1...

Email: nowakowskitomaszhn@gmail.com

Hello, I'm Tom, software tester with 2+ years of experience primarily in mobile apps testing, but I also dabbled with testing websites, PC games, and console games. I have good intuition and I believe in a methodical approach to testing. I am looking for opportunity to grow.

Vedor commented on Code like a surgeon geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/... · Posted by u/simonw

AdieuToLogic · 2 months ago

This analogy is fundamentally flawed, both literally and metaphorically:

  A surgeon isn’t a manager, they do the actual work! But 
  their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support 
  team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon 
  focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at.

First, the literal.

Surgeons are managers of the operations they perform and heavily rely on the surgical team with which they work. If the author had any clue about surgeries, they would understand that the most important person in a major surgery is the anaesthesiologist, not the surgeon(s).

Second, the metaphorical.

The author goes to great lengths to identify "grunt work" as being "not the most intellectually fulfilling or creative part of the work." What they do not do is understand that there is no such thing as "grunt work" if, for any definition of work, it is valued without judgement.

But if a person identifies with being "the surgeon", with everyone else being "a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin", then the post makes sense from an egocentric perspective.

Vedor · 2 months ago

I find that a lot of similar analogies are flawed.

On the landing page of one of the frameworks (I don't remember which one, unfortunately) there was a description comparing a programmer to a woodworker.

It was written that this woodworker, as a reliable and skilled craftsman, makes meticulously each piece of furniture with the same care, which isn't really true. For example, quite often the back panels remained unfinished, with traces of aggressive planing.

So the whole premise that "this framework will help you craft software as meticolously as woodworker crafts furniture" doesn't check out.

Vedor commented on Why Fennel? fennel-lang.org/rationale... · Posted by u/behnamoh

giraffe_lady · 8 months ago

I would love to see a stripped back ML-style language that targets lua, just something like ocaml's type system and exhaustive pattern match right on top would be all I need. There have been a few attempts but nothing I know of that got usably far and is maintained.

There might be a way to get standard ML to output lua or something but I'm not that familiar with it. I think it would be an incredible fit for a third backend for gleam, but they say they aren't adding any more beyond erlang and js.

Vedor · 8 months ago

I think that LunarML [1] could fit this niche quite well. It's a StandardML compiler that targets Lua. I can't tell much more as I've only played with it a little and don't have much experience with ML languages in general, but it looks promising.

[1] https://github.com/minoki/LunarML

Vedor commented on In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work slate.com/life/2024/12/wo... · Posted by u/mooreds

theamk · a year ago

I don't think the people you are describing are called "sales" - usually they are "post-sales support", or "account manager", or something similar.. Basically "project manager" equivalent for customer relationship.

Fully agree that they are great though.

Vedor · a year ago

In smaller companies, one person might cover multiple roles. Also, it might be different when your employer is focused on B2B sales, though I don't have enough experience to be sure about that.

Anyway, when I was working in sales, I was handling pre-sales, closings, and post-sales support. We were manufacturing and selling security equipment. The goal never was to simply close the deal. We wanted to expand the network of distributors, and to do so, we needed to build long-lasting relationships.

I quite liked the experience, but I was always more tech guy than salesman – I guess most of my clients were coming back because I was preparing projects of CCTV installations, I was providing trainings for clients and their crew.

But as a typical salesman described in the article, I would be terrible.

Vedor commented on Tog's Paradox votito.com/methods/togs-p... · Posted by u/adzicg

gukov · a year ago

Well, travelling as a group of people almost always demands having a plan, otherwise “we’ll just wander around until we find something interesting” is a hard sell to get everyone on board.

Vedor · a year ago

Fair point. And that's why I prefer to travel alone or just with my fiancee. It's just much easier to, well, wander as you please.