Didn't know him well, but we've crossed paths over the years from the early days of Guice and Struts2, and at various conferences. Always welcoming and friendly. Such a tragedy.
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#122Didn't know him well, but we've crossed paths over the years - from the early days of Guice and Struts2, and various conferences since. Always friendly and lots of great conversation. Such a tragedy.
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#123Can't imagine his kids hearing this news today. Just breaks me thinking about it. Hold your loved ones close.
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#124I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in the Google Collections API, but that in combination with Guice really made Java engineering in the JDK 6 days much more bearable.
What a devastating, senseless tragedy.
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#125Shocked to hear about this. Rest In Peace Bob.
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#126The anecdote I always share about my 2013 internship at Square involves Bob. It took place during the quarterly Hack Week, when the company allowed everyone to take a break from work and build whatever they liked. Cash App (known as "Square Cash" back then) had just been launched, and the only way to send money was by emailing someone with a dollar amount in the subject line and cc'ing cash@square.com. My fellow inte…
You forgot to mention that the dependency injection library, Guice, that you were asking about was created by Bob himself! CashApp's monolith is still called Franklin today.
Wow. Ok. Thank you for sharing this.
Guice was one of my first "aha" moments at Google about how modern Java could be written without a million XML files. I later took Guice to multiple other companies and projects back when I used to sling Java code for a living.
It seems like such a small thing, but it had a huge influence on my career right out of college.
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#127https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crazybob if you're curious about his HN presence.
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#128Too bad. Rest in peace. Hope family is okay.
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#129I first discovered Bob via his blog, basically a post about how he had just joined Google. As a Java developer early in my career, he inspired me with his work on Google Collections, Guice and Android. He was a bit of a role model.
Later when he moved back to St. Louis, I got to meet him personally a few times as he was friends with professional acquaintances. He was the most nice, down to earth person you’d meet. He will be sorely missed.
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#130Thank 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…
Constant acceleration, or did you mean velocity? I'm imagining that the magstripe data must be unevenly spaced for constant acceleration to make sense?