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posted by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the News dept.

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.

His website is here.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:37AM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:37AM (#819982)

    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
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:17PM (#820998)

    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.