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: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:06AM (4 children)
Shit.
The world just got worse.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:13AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:45PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Bnk6VU53Y [youtube.com]
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:31PM (1 child)
Seconded. MDC raised issues no one else did and made many discussions worthwhile engaging in that I'd usually just not care about.
He would be sorely missed.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:08PM
When the character limit on comment titles fits just right.