convinced

I am convinced HN is the Pinterest of software. Someone made a coffee table out of old crates?

I'm convinced that computers are still at the Newcomen/Watt transition. We have a ways to go before the world truly changes.

Preface: Something I've noticed about jerks/assholes: they're convinced that they're surrounded by jerks and/or assholes. Almost none of them are jerks for no reason.

I'm firmly convinced that almost any of us can get better, much better. And even become "elite", whatever that means.

I convinced the payroll clerk to just stop paying the other person. He got pissed, and eventually tried to get a union rep, but the union decided not to rep him.

And I'm not convinced that's publishable in any sort of competitive journal.

I've never been convinced. I hear an incredible number of stories about people who wanted to use Ubuntu, but couldn't because of one Windows app.

Also, I am less than convinced of the utility of mobile streaming. Bandwidth and connectivity are still issues.

I'm convinced its pure cronyism and ass-covering. I guess nobody ever got fired for losing their clients' money to a Harvard or MIT Sloan MBA. Nobody with a degree like that could be at fault.

I am convinced there is some kind of long-term drinking game going on in the C standards committee to see how many different uses they can come up with for the word "static".

You can see that other people may be more stupid than you, forwarding simpler arguments and relying on less rigorous thinking than yours, but if they don't want to be convinced of that, then you are powerless to make them see it. They go off blissfully, and you burn with anguish.

What is important is that whatever they had in front of them convinced Apple management that it they had no choice but to, effectively, downgrade the next release with Maps. I already know of a lot of non-tech people, particularly outside the US, who are livid about Maps.

At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram.

And I guess this is why the branding here resonated with me so much -- it touched that part of me and convinced me that this company could make all that reality after all. As an engineer I feel like I have a hyper-literal mindset where most branding and advertising just washes over me.

I also like the part where the NSA is guarded by the Catch-22 "it wasn't them, because if it was, you'd never know", such that that there's no scenario in which you could be convinced that the NSA did anything. And yet again, maybe it's time to stop thinking of the NSA as some far-off abstraction and start thinking about it is an actual thing that affects our daily lives.

Yes, if a company is 100% convinced that they absolutely must have your technology/customers/IP/whatever, they'll overlook many many flaws. But, if you go into the due diligence process and things are overly messy, it throws up red flags and creates delays, neither of which are in the entrepreneurs favor.

If the algorithm would mate only the rhinoboats with rhinoboats and assdraggers with assdraggers, I'm convinced we'd end up with some superrhinoboats and superassdraggers, but instead I just get an unhappy compromise. Maybe make "similarity to self" one of the genotype parameters.

However, she convinced a lot of people. Only after noticing that quite a few friends and acquaintances were turning their backs on me lately, and a few people coming out and saying strange things like "hey, what's up with you and X, you gotta let her go, man" or even "dude, I heard what you did and it's not seriously not cool" I gradually learned that this person was waging an epic info war around and about me, who supposedly couldn't stop hitting on her.