Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by seahawks78 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:20AM (#35450083)

RIP Bob Lee! I was highly inpired by some of your Java talks in Youtube and other places. Aside from that alas! what have things come down to in San Francisco? It has become an utter lawless city.

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by snodnipper on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:22AM (#35450534)

Bob was an incredible guy - we've lost wonderful tech leader _but_ I am so terribly sorry that his family have to go through this

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by cs02rm0 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:15AM (#35450963)

I was hugely inspired by his Java stuff too. Guice and I seem to recall then seeing his name on Guava and Android code too.

Felt very guilty about 10 years ago when I won a competition (not sure how competitive it really was, but still) to meet him and Josh Bloch for pizza and Java talk. I think it was because they were attending a conference, but I wasn't able to get there. Still have the email from him, but never did get the chance to meet him. His career seemed to go from something that I could relate to, to stratospheric from there. Absolutely deservedly so from everything I could see.

I've roamed around places that have a fairly sketchy reputation but being stabbed at that age seems unfathomable.

Terrible loss, tragic for his family.

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