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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: 1) by visiblink on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:12AM
I remember you both from Kuro5hin.org. I never really followed anything to do with him, but knew that he was a controversial figure there. I seem to recall you posting some stuff that ended up on the front page. Sadly, rusty must have no-robots'd everything, since there's no internet archive of it.
In any case, I was only ever there for the McGrew posts. The Paxil Diaries still represent the high point of internet culture for me, such as it is (or rather, was).
I hope he went out in the sublime, if you know what I mean. Sounds like he was an inspired and tormented soul. But then, most of us are.