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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:28AM
He was smart, but irrational. Likable, but crazy.
As much as he stroked some people the wrong way, I don't think I recall he ever lost his temper with people here.
My longest interaction with him was trying to convince him not to buy that stupid buttcoin miner rig. He ended up buying it, and as expected it wasn't amortizing itself at a reasonable rate. But I hope he had some fun with it.
The last physical illness thing I heard from him was him getting a kidney removed. I hope the residual pain from that didn't drive him to suicide. What's worse: Leaving someone in constant pain driving them to suicide, vs providing effective analgesia at a risk of addiction? I believe being pain-free should be a human right.
Rest in peace, MDC.