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Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by karianna »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #108
glaforge wrote: post #86

I believe I met Bob for the first time in 2007. I was already leading the Apache Groovy project back then (started in 2003) and had the chance to do a "tech talk" at Google, in Mountain View, to present the language to Google engineers. In the crowd, there were pretty famous people like Guido Van Rossum (of Python fame), Cédric Beust (TestNG), Romain Guy (on Android), Patrick Chanezon... and of course "Crazy" Bob Lee…

What a thread with all those people from the mid-2000s.

It’s a reunion for the worst of reasons but it’s a testament to crazy on of how many people he made feel awesome along the way

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by wiskinator »

I met Bob when he interviewed me for a position on Square's embedded software team in 2013. One of my previous interviewers told me that I was being interviewed by the CTO and my anxiety spiked through the roof. Bob could obviously tell, and said "don't worry, I just like to interview all the folks using C in the interview". His problem was simple, and ruthless. Implement a circular buffer in static memory. Don't F it up.

It was the most fun I had that day, and I still use it as a gauge of how to interview folk (though I don't use that question).

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by dang »

olivermarks wrote: post #132
benburton wrote: post #124

I 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.

Most murders are for a reason, not 'senseless'. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. 'Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard appears to show Bob Lee, a 43-year-old former top executive at Square, walking on the sidewalk up Main Street away from the Bay Bridge at around 2:30 a.m., holding his side with one hand and using his phone with the other. Lee then crosses the intersection at Harrison Street toward a parked white Camry w…

Yes, and I know it is activating, but please don't let that difficult energy convert into flamewar here. We're trying for something else, especially in this thread.

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by strangemonad »

kelp wrote: post #93

A few things about Bob that I found remarkable. He was incredibly hard working, in the early days of Square he owned the engineering hiring process and was on the interview panel for every engineer up through the company having hundreds of engineers. It was just an amazing amount of work he put into this. When there weren't enough hours in the day, he started delegating, but the whole engineering culture was just inc…

Not to mention patient as he helped the org mature multiple times over

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by cpurdy »

dannyr wrote: post #15
iradik wrote: post #14

So 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.

Yes. He wrote big chunks of the original Davlik libs.

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by cpurdy »

jessewilson wrote: post #146

Bob & Krista invited my wife and I to a Medieval Faire and I was struck by just how much energy he had. He rented a king & queen costume for the day and carried himself to match his attire. I’ll miss him forever. https://publicobject.com/2023/04/05/bob-bent-the-universe/

You were one of his favorite people that he ever got to work with. Even years later he couldn't stop gushing about how proud he was of you. No exaggeration.

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by kevinb9n »

benburton wrote: post #124

I 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.

Yup. For one thing Bob wrote the map implementation that evolved into Guava's com.google.common.cache (for the confused: "Google Collections" was renamed to Guava). But also he was just one of the people that I always bounced ideas off of; he definitely had an impact.

(This was actually the late 00s though!)

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by kevinb9n »

dang wrote: post #153
olivermarks wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most murders are for a reason, not 'senseless'. THIS NEEDS TO STOP. 'Surveillance footage reviewed by The Standard appears to show Bob Lee, a 43-year-old former top executive at Square, walking on the sidewalk up Main Street away from the Bay Bridge at around 2:30 a.m., holding his side with one hand and using his phone with the other. Lee then crosses the intersection at Harrison Street toward a parked white Camry w…

Yes, and I know it is activating, but please don't let that difficult energy convert into flamewar here. We're trying for something else, especially in this thread.

Thank you VERY much for keeping on top of this stuff, dang.

Re: Remembering Bob Lee

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Post by strangemonad »

aboodman wrote: post #66
MrDresden wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I read that it originated from his waterpolo days.

can confirm. It's a nickname he earned as a teen playing water polo.
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