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: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:37AM (1 child)
May MDC achieve peace of mind in the afterlife that he had a problem with achieving in the physical realm.
I had never met him... But I did have a respect for him. I feel bad now that I took a few jabs at a few of his comments, even though in the name of fun/humor, even though as mentioned, he generally poked fun at himself as well.
I remember one of my first interactions with him... Even though software engineering has no physical toll on the body... it definitely has a ton of mental stress. He understood that, and sadly many people don't realize it until they miss a paycheck in this industry either due to age, older technology changing, or outsourcing. It does not take much to end up the same way... homeless and/or mentally stressed.
This site is now a little more empty without him.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:17PM
I don't think MDC's suicide had anything to do with them, he very clearly stated he was breaking down, and he'd already had a lot of other issues. I was really sad upon reading this that he never got his conference of specialists to investigate his problems however, and wish he could've waited a few more months in the hope that one of us could have helped make that happen for him.