Hacker News: futurist

New comment by futurist in "Fear of Rejection when Applying to Y Combinator"

futurist — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:31:02 +0000

The way you mentally frame rejection is important. I found Rejection Therapy [1] to be effective at rewiring the brain's perception of rejection and not be attached to the outcome.

[1]http://rejectiontherapy.com

New comment by futurist in "Gay Developers Boycott As Mozilla Appoints Allegedly Anti-Gay CEO"

futurist — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:20:20 +0000

According to these folks, it's okay to have your own views and morals. That is, as long as it is politically correct.

New comment by futurist in "Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace"

futurist — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:19:23 +0000

A way out... For what? Standing up for his moral convictions?

New comment by futurist in "Basecamp was under network attack"

futurist — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:47:42 +0000

Yes, "criminals" is much too harsh. Let's replace it with "unfortunately misguided souls xoxo".

New comment by futurist in "[dead]"

futurist — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:19:22 +0000

I've largely moved on from HN anyway, and I've been way more productive. This should only help.

Who is the heir apparent for HN? Lobste.rs? Back to Slashdot?

New comment by futurist in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

futurist — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:16:55 +0000

It should be possible to endorse something without agreeing with it.

You honestly think that's going to happen? Thanks for the chuckle Paul.

New comment by futurist in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

futurist — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 02:11:31 +0000

Can you say groupthink? What a terrible idea. HN is going to suck even more now.

The best way to protest this idea is to ignore the site. Just ignore it and get some work done for a change.

New comment by futurist in "[dead]"

futurist — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 22:01:02 +0000

Should be a law against crybabies like you? Yes!

New comment by futurist in "Researchers Show How Lost Sleep Leads to Lost Neurons in Mice"

futurist — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:03:58 +0000

This treatment of mice or any sentient being is cruel and inhumane. It should be criminal to conduct such experiments. I hope one day it is.

New comment by futurist in "Virgin Atlantic Pilot (ex-Gulf War): Could MH370 have been ‘swapped’ mid-air?"

futurist — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 01:41:37 +0000

It's Yahoo news, what do you expect?

New comment by futurist in "Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves"

futurist — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:53:25 +0000

Very eager to get one. When are you opening up orders to Canada?

New comment by futurist in "Bill Gates Says Snowden is No Hero"

futurist — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 02:57:12 +0000

Bill Gates is an old fuddyduddy with too many friends in high places to ever side with Snowden. His answer isn't the least surprising.

New comment by futurist in "Show HN: An app to tweet text as an image"

futurist — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:37:28 +0000

Clever name, but are these images guaranteed to be SFW?

New comment by futurist in "Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time"

futurist — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:31:43 +0000

Gift of tongues. 1 Cor 14:1-40 KJV

New comment by futurist in "What Dreams May Come"

futurist — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:40:35 +0000

I did. How about you do the same?

New comment by futurist in "What Dreams May Come"

futurist — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:47:41 +0000

Right. I think this is what bothers me about this list. It's material driven. There's a saying that goes (paraphrasing) "don't wish for better circumstances, wish to be a better person."

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 KJV.

Jonathan, you and your family must look to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is your judge. Through Him all things are possible.

New comment by futurist in "Stick bomb"

futurist — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 09:54:52 +0000

How do you set a stick bomb off? Is there a particular way?

New comment by futurist in "How to meditate"

futurist — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:38:24 +0000

There's also vow of now, the 30 Day meditation challenge: http://vowofnow.com

New comment by futurist in "Show HN: PitchIt - Present slides to anyone from any device"

futurist — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 15:54:32 +0000

I hate trying to locate a slide projector and fumbling for the controller. It looks like PitchIt solves the problem with a more impromptu style presentation. I like it!

New comment by futurist in "Obama's Trauma Team: Inside the Nightmare Launch of HealthCare.Gov"

futurist — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:56:49 +0000

Correlation, causation, blah blah blah. There are people who pocketed a lot of taxpayer money creating the healthcare.gov failboat, and no one is being held accountable. That's my takeaway from the article.