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cpr

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About cpr

Chris Ryland, founder/president, Em Software, http://emsoftware.com cpr@emsoftware.com

Long-time "lifestyle" software entrepreneur (small company since 1990), grizzled Silicon Valley start-up scene veteran (1980's), homeschooling father of 8, Harvard grad.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48700665

    The same holds true of precious metals, most definitely. If things really HTF, you're gonna want to not be blocked by a closed bank, etc.

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    Comment #48261690

    I remember reading Unix source in Geoff Steckel‘s office at Harvard who got the first Unix distribution outside of their labs and the line printer would just would use overstrike o…

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    Comment #47006317

    Helped Carl Helmers start Byte along with another Intermetrics co-worker Dan Fylstra (who founded VisiCorp a bit later, the first PC software company that published VisiCalc) in th…

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    Comment #47005234

    Look up "where did the towers go?" on Youtube, a lecture by materials scientist Judy Wood. She argues I think conclusively that the towers were turned into dust by directed energy …

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    Comment #46630490

    I think he was referencing Ted Kaszinski (sp?).

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    Comment #46630478

    Would love link to olive oil farm…

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    Comment #45041695

    "Muh Russia". C'mon, that's such a cheap take. The Fed has done nothing but destroy the value of the dollar since its founding in 1913.

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    Comment #43523578

    > When 1200 people compete for 1 open internship position, can I really afford to waste my time like this? If you think of education as trying to lead people into being whole human…

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    Comment #43490171

    Wow, that brings back memories! First saw the C compiler sources on Geoff Steckel (local guru)'s desk around 1973 at the Harvard graduate computing center, and was absolutely floor…

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    Comment #43004314

    I loved visiting the Mill back in the day when I was part of the crews buying DECSystem-20's for Columbia University and later the Fairchild AI Lab. What a great place to work, and…

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    Comment #42660522

    Yes, helped start it (first or second employee back in 1980(?)). Wild! I had forgotten the LispMs had Impress support; I think that came out of the time when we worked with Janet W…

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    Comment #42657409

    Nah, it'd come out too much as "almost famous". I did manage to avoid being Microsoft employee #12 or so (my buddy Bob Greenberg was #8, I think?, and encouraged me to come join th…

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    Comment #42657061

    And you know because...?

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    Comment #42650143

    https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-testim... -- see "New and improved Joe Tippens protocol". Has worked for hundreds of people, and what has he got to lose? It's…

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    Comment #42649860

    That March 1977 map always brings back a flood of memories to this old-timer. Happy nights spent hacking in the Harvard graduate computer center next to the PDP-1/PDP-10 (Harv-1, H…

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    Comment #42456810

    Because it was lab created. That's been well established.

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    Comment #42138931

    Are you joking? The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world, if you multiple corruption times power. And I love my country (USA), but just hate…

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    Comment #41781534

    The problem is that if you want to provide a full-featured file picker, and not rely on Google's limited browser-based version, your app will require the full "drive" scope. (We do…

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    Comment #41493201

    There's nothing quite like the "flow" you get into when you're a fast, accurate typist and the code just pours of you like honey. (Well, that sounds slow. ;-) Especially when using…

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    Comment #41364206

    Wow, memory lane! Used it (only amateurishly) about 30 years ago...

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    Comment #41305686

    Very censored. Pukes out the standard lies about vaxx dangers.

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    Comment #41202880

    Any examples anywhere? Being prompted to log in/sign up is a show-stopper.

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    Comment #41202856

    Even better, you can get a 15m Ethernet cable that brings the network to the point of power (with the standard 15m power cable). I had my Mini set up outside and extended the power…

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    Comment #41202826

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