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Sorry, it bugs me when I see this guy get written about. Please do not pass up his sexual misconduct issues (mentioned in the article as well). He might be an early legend, but I don't think he should be idolized any longer.

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/01/we-need-to-have-a-chat-about...

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3237591/captain-crunch-aka...

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Yow. That's sad. Crunch is a mess. Arguably brilliant with some of the things he's created, but the madness is a pretty high price to pay. Personally, I could never get past his lack of basic hygiene. The back thing, though, prison was not kind to Draper and left him with a lot of on-going pain.

I saw similarities with some of the folks Aaron Swartz associated with back in the 90's. That jackass Winer, for one.

There's a lot of fragility in young minds, do them a favor and call out against this festering abusive behavior. Otherwise they continue to get away with it.

Thank you. People are just now starting to ban him from conferences and what not, but he's still finding his way to prey upon young people in our communities.

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