Rob Pike·2011·Google Tech TalksRob Pike walks through the lexer he built for Go's text/template package — a small masterclass in using state functions and channels to write a parser that reads like prose.
Douglas Crockford·2009·Google Tech TalksCrockford's walkthrough of the language — its good parts, its bad parts, and the historical accidents that produced both.
Joshua Bloch·2007·Google Tech TalksThe Java Collections architect distills decades of API design into a tight set of heuristics. Still the canonical reference on the subject.
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Linus Torvalds·2007·Google Tech TalksLinus visits Google in 2007 to explain — bluntly — why distributed version control is the right model, why CVS and Subversion are not, and how git's data model falls out of that.
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