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simonebrunozzi
34,863karma·9,959submissions·May 24, 2008
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Current: VC in Europe at Rialto.VC
Previously: Operating partner at Cota Capital; co-founder of Fabrica.land, co-founder of Cloud Academy; CTO at VMware; Tech Evangelist at AWS. @simon on Twitter (yep, early user).
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Hello moot, nice to see you here :)
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This is true for most things on HN.
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Why did Khosla Ventures sued TheFunded?
Is TheFunded = Founder Institute?
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"it is easier to accumulate a lot of money if you are soulless" Interesting point. I believe it to be true, but haven't found any proof or good evidence. Any help?
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This is a great story for the simple reason that ODesk was able to find a very effective way to "test" candidates, without going through the boring, repetitive, outdated task of checking the…
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I think "The lives of others" was a great movie. I'd recommend it.
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Paul,
I've read Hackers and Painters, and you can't imagine how HAPPY I am that you've been in Florence, and have been influenced by what you saw there. I love, love the fact that (at l…
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Almost 100% OT: I will visit NYC with my wife next month. It's my 12th or so time, but her FIRST! I would love to give her an experience like this, with a real person walking us through Brooklyn,…
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I knew Second Life very well. In 2007, I built a perfect replica of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi [1], met with Philip Rosedale in San Francisco, and almost cried when he told me: "This…
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I just want to say that as soon as I opened this page, and started reading tokenadult's comment (without noticing the author), I thought: this should be tokenadult. And I was right!!! I have read…
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I think you wanted to say "on an EC2 machine", instead of "dedicated machine".
Otherwise, people might think you're referring to physical hardware.
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I think this is a good thing. Let me explain. 1) You can think that there are hundreds of OTHER things worth pursuing, instead of spending time on a project that is very hard to complete, expensive, a…
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Rents are a result of demand and offer. San Francisco has seen an incredible raise in rent costs, because more and more people (with money, evidently) want to move to SF (from elsewhere in the country…
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Good to hear this feedback. I work for AWS; I will pass this to the team.
Feel free to shoot me an email: simone attt amazon do0tcom if you have more comments. Thanks!
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Well done!
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Hi there!
Expressing deep thoughts or emotions in a foreign language can be very hard, especially if there are cultural differences. (try mediterranean cultures and Anglo-saxon ones, for instance). Ho…
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WildUtah,
thanks for the details. Very useful and interesting. So, I was right in thinking that pronouncing English is harder than, say, Italian or Japanese. Unfortunately, written Japanese is super h…
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Can you tell us a bit more about Sococo? And/or any other good alternative? Would it be practical to use them?
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Very interesting!! I actually had some of these experiences when I was based in Asia. I agree, and I understand. Thanks!
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Ah, I didn't know it. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
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Another hopefully interesting discussion on another HN thread here (Accents, English, Arrogance, Success): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6316826 (disclaimer: I am the author of…
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I agree, it's a bit confusing.
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Exactly!
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lazyjones, you are right. It's not a statement of fact. Let me rephrase by saying that "if you have a strong accent, you are more likely to perform poorly as the CEO of a startup that does b…
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I don't understand your point. I am not a linguist, but in my humble opinion, pidgin doesn't measure how far two languages are; it rather is the semplification of a language (e.g. Latin, or …
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Exactly.
I am making a more general point, while Paul Graham was just specifically talking about startup CEOs. By the way, this is probably why some people found his post xenophobic: they thought he w…
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Hey solve,
I think that pidgin are easier than English, and this is why: they are intended to use in a very simple and effective way. A full language, like English, has much more complex phrasing.
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Hey Daniel, good points. I agree that when there are MULTIPLE English speakers in the group, it's almost impossible to slow them down. I also agree that it's unlikely to be arrogance in that…