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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.
In the early 2000s, I first encountered Bob through the Java open source community. He had a knack of being able to go deep on a tough problem and emerge with a wonderfully elegant solution. This was a time when software was getting increasingly complex, and so did the knowledge required to understand it, yet Bob consistently bucked the trend and made things seems simple. He would tackle problems that scared others. He was crazy. Crazy Bob.
At one point we had a rivalry working on two open source projects competing to solve the same problem. When we first met face to face, I was nervous there may be confrontation, yet he was friendly, full of energy, and excited that we shared the passion for the same problem. We brainstormed many ideas and both went away feeling great! His crazy energy amplified my own and passion for software.
Shortly after, I joined Google because of Bob. Over the years since, he and I did our best to recruit each other for nearly every company either of us worked at - we just never got the timing right, yet I was always hopeful we'd figure it out eventually.
Even in CxO roles, whenever Bob and I met we'd geek out on all sorts of tech problems, ranging from API design, to embedded C firmware tricks, to financial protocols, to graph network theory, to hardware development. He loved tech, and his eyes lit up whenever we found a shared passion.
Bob was one of those few people who was incredibly smart, could see the problem in different ways, energize everyone around them, and make you want to be a better you.
Crazy Bob. You'll be missed.
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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…
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I interviewed at Google almost 20 years ago, and Bob was one of 5-6 interviewers that I had. I don't remember the other interviewers, but I remember Bob. He was very high energy, and posed a really fun, original question about selective logging. The kind of question that you could tell was born out of his personal experiences at Google, not just something he found in a "ten linked list questions" blog post. The gist…
Bob and I overlapped at Google and on Android and I think we even shared a manager for some time. It seems we overlapped at at least one Foo Camp as well.
Bob always seemed chipper, excited, friendly, patient, and happy.
I've been searching my email to re-read our various interactions over the years. We started following each other on Twitter in 2008. In 2012, a friend offered to put me on the guest list for a Stripe party. I replied that "Crazybob already put me on :-)". In 2020 we were DMing about custom-designed front doors and whether my friend also wanted to make him one. He was thinking Shou Sugi Ban style.
We're the same age, both dads. I also used to live in SF and visit sometimes. It all seems so surreal.
I hadn't seen him in person in ages but regularly saw him post to Twitter.
Like I said, nothing much unique to say. But I'll miss him. He was good people.
At first, I didn't like Bob Lee. Then I met him. I didn't know him when he joined my AdWords team in '04. He was the next to join after me. He was 24 (I was 29) and he was known by a fun nickname and he had already co-written a BOOK ferchrissakes. Worse, he was going to be working on the stuff that I had asked to work on (but had been told we didn't have time for). I had him sized up all right. I didn't like hotshot…
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Did some googling today, sorry for my comment! (But mine was one of the nicer ones ;-) "Obie is one of those Ruby developers with no programming experience" http://blog.crazybob.org/2007/09/gavin-king-on-activerecord....
The tech has changed, but the Flamewars were just as hot 2 decades ago! Bob was never afraid to have an opinion. A bit sad to see all those deadlinks in the comments though. From what I recall sites like JRoller were captured by the Way Back machine, but images seem to have been lost. At least they were for my blog at the time.
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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.
Ex-Square chiming in (I fondly remember Project Franklin), he was also arguably the inventor of modern dependency injection as we know it! https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330