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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 a
by iradik 3y ago
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.
- dannyr 3y agoIf I remember correctly, Bob Lee worked on the Google Android team too.
- cpurdy 3y agoYes. He wrote big chunks of the original Davlik libs.
- beastman82 3y agoExact 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.
- veeti 3y agoThe extent and popularity of Square libraries in Android development is crazy. Whenever you download an app I think there's a pretty good chance some of Bob's code is in there.
- oh_sigh 3y agoOh, yup. I knew him as "crazy bob" through all his guice comments, and didn't connect that these were the same Bob Lees until your comment.
- throw_m239339 3y agoSome great contributions he did. RIP, life is simply unfair.
- ynx 3y agoPrecisely my experience with him as well.
- kevinb9n 3y agoJust to fill in some detail, Dagger was originally by jessewilson, but Bob was certainly highly involved. They were working together a lot then.