[benburton]

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.

[kevinb9n]

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!)

[olivermarks]

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 with its lights flashing, the video appears to show. Lee lifts his shirt—as if to show the driver his wound and ask for help—and then falls to the ground after the car drives away.

He then gets up and walks back down Main Street toward the Bay Bridge before falling to the ground in front of 403 Main St., an apartment building known as the Portside'.

Very distressing.

https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/video-appears-to-sho...

[dang]

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.

[olivermarks]

My comment wasn't directed at @benburton, I was just pointing out amongst all the warm memories of a very decent human being that San Francisco is becoming increasingly lawless.

I was badly beaten and robbed 12 years ago in the early hours by an unknown assailant downtown. It is exponentially worse today and something needs to happen and fast to get this under control so more people don't die or are badly injured and to stem the flow of talent leaving the area.

[dang]

That's awful. I'm sorry that happened to you.

[kevinb9n]

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