mmh. watching the first and parts of the second video.
Isn't he a bit slow i.e. to detailed ?
Does anybody know the background of the audience in the room ?
If you are talking about the part on unit test, yes that was a bit extended. I guess he was just trying to cover up his silly mistake (nothing wrong, only human!). Also I think the audience mostly consisted of student researchers who are probably not used to the idea of writing unit tests.
Wow Quoc works at Google. Google keeps attracting all of these amazingly talented people. Also wonder if regular software engineers get to work with such people at Google.