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simonebrunozzi
34,863karma·9,959submissions·May 24, 2008
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Opinions my own.
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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My name is Simone. Try to guess how often my name is pronounced in the wrong way. (hint: it's probably more than 99%). :)
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The reason why they call your name is because Schultz, inspired by the "bar" in Milan in the early 1980's, wanted people to believe they had a barista friend.
Note that "bar" …
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Protectionism has never worked well.
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Hi dhrp,
I assume you work for Dotcloud? Nice job so far. Where do you see this heading to? What's your view of what will happen in the virtualization world? Best,
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Can you elaborate? I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on this. (I am a foreigner and certain things can escape the little I know about US).
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The "excess capacity" is a pure myth.
When AWS started, it was using a set of Data Centers which had nothing to do with Amazon.com (the Retail part of it).
Now Amazon.com is just another (bi…
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I would bet that PG will not respond to this one.
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Agree, I had to stop ScriptSafe in order to be able to scroll. Surprising how many things use JS nowadays.
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Yes. Italy: Stefano Quintarelli, MS in Computer Science, he brought internet in Italy in the early 90s, then sold i.NET and founded a few startups. One of the smartest and most brilliant people on the…
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Did you try:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/script-blocker/edk... How do you compare them?…
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Yes (I lived in Singapore for 2.5 years) but they go quite slow. Top speed of the most recent, unmanned MRT (yellow line) is about 65 Km/h.
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Only 50-100? I would go as far as 200! :)
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I am copying this from a recent blog post that I've written. Hopefully it's good advice. Let me know what you think. 3) What did I learn?
Now you might want to ask: after 500 talks, presenta…
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I tend to agree with you, even if I am no expert.
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LOL :)
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Amen. Finally. I keep seeing too many "social" ones, they grab all the attention. Where are the others?
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I think there would be a tough competition on being the ugliest. I challenge you! :)
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Very smart. I was just thinking about it.
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Great story!
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That's actually cool. I am from Italy (Umbria), and I can appreciate why you do it.
In which area are you doing it? Just curious.
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Wow, even the "1000 limited edition poster prints". Crazy. I remember it when it came out. It was a success because of media attention. It sparkled a "gold rush" to buy these pixel…
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I know I'm almost OT, but let's consider for a moment the topic of "tipping taxi drivers". I find it completely unfair to tip cab drivers, and yet, they give it for granted it all …
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LOL! You're abs right :)
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Good luck!
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Nice job guys! Good luck!
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What would be the best way to play DF on a not-so-powerful machine? It seems that rendering the ASCII art is a serious CPU dwell...