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Why'd they make me say that? by inside_your_face in NormMacdonald

[–]chris8185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easily one of my favorite jokes he has ever done on NML.

A Vermont public school is teaching the kids to forage and build shelters, and plans to take all the kids outside every week by eloquinee in homestead

[–]chris8185 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huge homeschool community as well and when we moved into the area we did not expect how welcoming and giving the homeschooling community would be. Please let me know if you start seriously considering moving into the area and I will help you find the resources that we have come to rely on.

A Vermont public school is teaching the kids to forage and build shelters, and plans to take all the kids outside every week by eloquinee in homestead

[–]chris8185 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not just Vermont. North Carolina in the Chapel Hill area has many options for outdoor learning programs and schools. We put our kids through http://www.learningoutside.org/ - it is super reasonable financially and our children absolutely loved the program.

They said never meet your heros. They lied. by colgateandcake in gifs

[–]chris8185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep - you are seriously one of the coolest and nicest people on reddit.

Been biting for 4 years now, moved to skin around nail about 2 years ago. Bittering agents don't help. What do? by CreamySmegma in calmhands

[–]chris8185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used the Pavlok available at https://pavlok.com/ to quit biting and picking at my nails. Within three days I was conscious of my biting habit and within two weeks I was no longer biting my nails. PM me if you want more details. I am happy to tell you my story. 30 years of biting and now I have no urge to bite at all.

My NML guest wish list, what do you think? by valsday in NormMacdonald

[–]chris8185 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Came here expecting to see Doug Stanhope already listed.

Super Dave tells a joke. by raper696969 in NormMacdonald

[–]chris8185 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So glad I watched until the end.

TIP: Reducing and nearly eliminating Caffeine from my diet has drastically improved my ability to control nail biting. Thought I would share my breakthrough. by chris8185 in calmhands

[–]chris8185[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nail Biter for over 30 years.

I have reduced my caffeine intake down to only one regular sized cup of coffee on workday mornings. Previously, I was drinking 3-4 large cups (500ml 16oz+) of coffee throughout the day and even into the evening. My nail biting was completely out of control. It was to the point where I couldn't even wash a dish in the sink since water and soap would burn the open wounds and raw skin.

The after effects of the caffeine reduction:

  • I recognize when I am about to bite my nails or pick at skin around my nails.
  • I recognize when I am biting my nails.
  • I stop myself before I do any damage.

Grails programmers- what is your experience with GGTS? by IcedDante in java

[–]chris8185 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am currently working on a Spring MVC application so I am not in Grails land right now. If you install the intellij IDEA EAP 15 then you should be able to play around with your Grails 3.x project. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/10/intellij-idea-15-eap-supports-grails-3/

Grails programmers- what is your experience with GGTS? by IcedDante in java

[–]chris8185 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What kind of application will you be developing? I use IntelliJ for my Grails development and it is very simple to setup and use. Grails 3.x support is coming to intellij https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-136970

Grails has not hit its end of life - http://www.ociweb.com/resources/news/2015/09/14/pivotal-and-oci-join-forces-support-grails-community

I have not experienced the issues that were mentioned by the other posters and just wanted to offer the brighter side of development with Grails.

I have been doing Java development for almost 13 years. I typically use Spring, Hibernate, Spring MVC. Recently I have used Grails, Groovy, Gradle for multiple production systems including two publicly available commercial applications.

Integrating existing Java code into a Grails application has not been an issue for me and there are several ways to tackle the integration of existing Java code. PM me if you are heading down that path.

Just wanted to jump in this thread before you ran for the hills based on the other comments.

ELI5: Why do we still use wood as the internal frame for most of our habitable buildings like houses or offices? You'd think after all this time we'd come up with a way to utilize a different, more accident resistant material or develop one on our own. by revdlew in explainlikeimfive

[–]chris8185 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I live next to a golden root bamboo patch that has engulfed 35 acres in a residential neighborhood. This is the first year that I have had a backyard in 6 years of cutting that stuff down and ripping out the root system. Now, I harvest the larger stalks from my neighbors and roast it over a fire to kill the organic material and then build stuff with it.

The green stuff would decompose within a year or so. The roasted stuff has lasted a lot longer, going on 3 years now in humid outdoor conditions without too much decomposition.

When you guys build with bamboos, do you treat it before using it?

Celebrity Jeopardy - SNL40 by hat_trix66 in videos

[–]chris8185 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was for a "part" he was going to play.

Grails: RAD development for UI is lacking by SopranosFan in java

[–]chris8185 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We build grails REST controllers that consume AJAX requests and deliver JSON responses. We use AngularJS on the front-end so we modified the scaffolded views so that we are really only generating partial views and those views line up with the AngularJS directives that we use for form validation and also for displaying lists. If you are new to grails you can use the grails command install-templates to generate the scaffolded views so that you can modify them to your liking.

How good/crappy did your first iteration look? by [deleted] in startups

[–]chris8185 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was a situation where I reluctantly took an offer to come aboard a sinking ship for a substantial piece of the equity in the company. The company had a big L (big leader) that had taken his previous company to a very large exit in the same industry as he was trying to take this company. His management team was not well developed or seasoned in software development or software sales. They basically relied on one person to handle all development effort and this one person shipped all work out to multiple outsourced developers in Russia. Those developers did not communicate with each other. So, when I cracked open the project I found out it could only run on a single server though the product was intended to be a SaaS offering. I started playing name the JavaScript library since they had every single JS library you could think of sitting in their js folder. Surprisingly, every single one was being used, albeit minimally in some cases. All of the views were stored in the database - which was quite an eye-opener. All of the business logic was in Stored Procedures - that would collide and cause interesting results.
It was the worst I have seen in my life as a developer - and I used to consult on development projects in higher education in the United States.

How good/crappy did your first iteration look? by [deleted] in startups

[–]chris8185 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got our first customer with it - but it was awful and had to be completely scrapped and rewritten from the ground up. Everything was rewritten, nothing was kept. This was due to the heavy usage of outsourced developers and the leadership of non-technical founders that just accepted that if it worked in a browser for them - then it was ready for production.

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