Also invented guice.
Remembering Bob Lee
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#12Why was he called crazybob?
According to footnote 121 in Chet Haase's book 'Androids' Bob had used this nickname since highschool and even used it as his corporate email address.
Does not answer where it originally came from, but he seems to have enjoyed the nickname.
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#13I was hugely inspired by his Java stuff too. Guice and I seem to recall then seeing his name on Guava and Android code too.
Felt very guilty about 10 years ago when I won a competition (not sure how competitive it really was, but still) to meet him and Josh Bloch for pizza and Java talk. I think it was because they were attending a conference, but I wasn't able to get there. Still have the email from him, but never did get the chance to meet him. His career seemed to go from something that I could relate to, to stratospheric from there. Absolutely deservedly so from everything I could see.
I've roamed around places that have a fairly sketchy reputation but being stabbed at that age seems unfathomable.
Terrible loss, tragic for his family.
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#14So sad. I met Bob once at an interview at Square in 2012 for the final interview. I believe he was the inventor of Google’s guice dependency injection library and the dagger library. I bombed the interview. I liked him anyway. RIP.
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#15So sad. I met Bob once at an interview at Square in 2012 for the final interview. I believe he was the inventor of Google’s guice dependency injection library and the dagger library. I bombed the interview. I liked him anyway. RIP.
If I remember correctly, Bob Lee worked on the Google Android team too.
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#16wow Rest In Peace Bob. You were an inspiration.
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#17So sad. I met Bob once at an interview at Square in 2012 for the final interview. I believe he was the inventor of Google’s guice dependency injection library and the dagger library. I bombed the interview. I liked him anyway. RIP.
Exact same experience in 2010. He was internet famous for guice, CTO of Square and former lead of Android library dev. Asked about my flight and was generally just friendly.
Before that I had even cold-emailed him about something related to the Square CC reader and he responded.
Anyway I didn't get the job either, but it was impossible not to like him in my very limited experience. Terribly tragic.
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#18I remember him from a tech video on theserverside.com, I thinkg it was on guice and dependency injection back in the 2005-2010 period. He was all smiles, energetic and inspiring. Sad news.
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#19I am so sorry to hear this, my heart goes out to Bob’s family. I had the pleasure of meeting Bob a few times while doing Android dev, he always went to Strange Loop. He was kind, smart, and funny. He was one of those CTOs that still loved to hack and tinker. The world will miss you, crazybob.
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#20Shocked to hear about this senseless loss. I didn't know Bob personally but was a big inspiration to me as a Java developer early in my career. My thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.