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Mike Crawford Is Dead, Contributed to Mac System 7.5.X and Activist
Some of you might know him on the west coast. He worked for Apple fixing/debugging System 7.5.X and attended Cal Tech. He was an activist for the mentally ill and homeless. He was openly bisexual and open about his schizoaffective disorder. His Facebook page.
I had helped him with his project Soggy Jobs which is unfinished. It was his project he needed a business model for.
He was on CNN about the taking away of tax credit from software engineers.
He was a member here at Hacker News.
He had serious physical illnesses that made him suffer and he took his own life.
I was an online friend of his, and I too suffer from schizoaffective disorder.
His wish was not to be forgotten to be remembered through his works. To at least have a Wikipedia article written on him or some other Wiki. Wikipedia named him non-notable about ten years ago. But if you met him, he'd always show you respect and even if he disagreed with you he was nice about it.
takyon: Here is MDC's last post on Warp Life, and Last Will And Testament. User page. Twitter.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:56AM (4 children)
I'll pour one out for you tonight buddy. This place won't be the same without you.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:39AM (1 child)
That isn't his style. Read his many journal entries and see. Don't pour one out. Rub one out. His photo is on Facebook and on his web site, just in case you need some, uh, inspiration.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:35AM
Hate to say it, but I gotta agree. Reading his posts and following his life, alcohol never seemed to be his style as much as his interest in sex and accompanying colorful descriptions. I'm sad he couldn't get help that would, well, help him.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:14AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:10AM
It's weird but every time someone who had an impact on my life dies I have a weird tranquil day.
I've been spending the whole day being productive, mostly in little ways (a wifi router here, a software update for someone else there.) Currently I am listening to death metal, pondering about my ladyfriend, not unlike he had discussed in the past months and trying to clean up both my digital and meatspace footprints, having let both become cluttered as life has beaten me down.
Knowing that another soul I would have liked to meet has passed from this world, maybe I can finally overcome my own malaise, gather a few of the friends I'd like to journey through life with, and go and live a tale him and the others who've passed before would enjoy watching from their seats in the afterlife (for those whobelieve in an afterlife.)
RIP MDC, you will be missed but, at least for this generation, you won't be forgotten.