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This was my thought too


It is very often used to mean simply "contradicts what seemed intuitive to me".


fwiw, my hashing library (http://guava.dev/HashFunction) went little-endian. It was probably for some reason.


I hope that one day Bob's son and daughter will see this thread, and will enjoy through tears these beautiful memories of their father.

If that ever happens, D&S, I hoped I could say something to you. If you never see it, well, I tried.

It's like this. You're going to be bombarded your entire lives by people going on and on about what an incredible person your dad was. You will never get away from it. I know, because my mom was also one of those absolutely rare one-in-a-billion souls. And for 40 years I've been hearing the legend of Sharon.

But for some reason, no one ever once said to me: "you know what Kev? Please tell us what she was like. Who she was to us, that's just who she was to us. You knew sides of her that we never could, and who she was to you is so very very important too."

Never. Once.

I'm not asking you to answer that to me or anything. But I just wanted to say. Yes, please enjoy reading and hearing our memories of him. I think they will bring a smile to your face from time to time. But there is a bigger part of him that belongs to you and you alone. And that matters so, so much. Hold it close and never stop talking about him. Even if just to each other. Even if just to yourselves.

I'm so very sorry he was taken from you.

(Hey, I got through that without even an I-remember-you-when-you-were-this-big!) (butIdo)


Just to fill in some detail, Dagger was originally by jessewilson, but Bob was certainly highly involved. They were working together a lot then.


Thank you so much for posting these


I half expected we would find it on his long form birth certificate.


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


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!)


(yes, your facts are correct here)


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