Remembering Bob Lee

Thank you very much -- I guess it's understandable given the tragic circumstances of his death, but Bob very much deserves to be remembered as you described him: an engineer's engineer. I first met him at Foo Camp in 2011, and we had a deeply enthralling conversation about building the Square reader. As it turns out, credit card swipes are (were?) fiendishly complicated! (I still tell others the advice that Bob gave me: for the best read, you want constant acceleration of your card -- not a fast swipe.) He showed me the tooling that he had built at Square to debug bad swipes; it was a role model for rigor in engineering and especially for the power of tooling. (Unsurprisingly, I was not the only person that had a conversation around this time and about this topic with Bob.[0])

dang: Thank you for the black bar today for Bob, a role model for us all who will be deeply missed.

[0] https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1643599340106301440

This is senseless and a huge loss.

Bob was a great guy.

I met him briefly when he worked at Google. He was just starting to work on Guice and I was skeptical of dependency injection and we talked about it for an hour.

I went home and did a heads down and Guice was a major impact on my coding for the next ten years.

I bumped into "Crazy Bob"a few more times and just an insanely nice guy.

He was also murdered at Main and Folsom right in downtown SOMA in SF. It was 2 blocks from my former apartment.

SF is just almost not worth it at this point.

Sounds like such a huge loss.

Does anyone know where the moniker 'crazybob' originated from?

Ah... I wondered where I recognized the `crazybob` name from.

Guice was the one Google code that surprised me with how good it was while I was there.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457507 rather than accusing someone of being a sock puppet and doing EXACTLY what this post was created to avoid.