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Mechanical Sympathy

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Summary

Martin Thompson ponders if there is a mechanical sympathy between developers and computers, and how to balance elegant design with the application of science in the development of modern software.

Bio

Martin Thompson is a high-performance and low-latency specialist. He believes in Mechanical Sympathy, which is applying an understanding of the hardware to the creation of software, being fundamental to delivering elegant high-performance solutions. Martin was the co-founder and CTO of LMAX, until he left to specialize in helping other people achieve great performance with their software.

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“BUILD STUFF” Conference is a Software Development Conference created for developers, team leaders, software architects and technical project managers. Our goal is to bring world class speakers to share innovations, latest developments, new trends and directions in software development world to the Baltics.

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Jun 10, 2014

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    Always interesting to watch his speechs.

  • Ironic

    by Eric Aguiar,

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    He's a good engineer and brilliant in his domain but where's the mechanical sympathy concerning the mic & that audio...

  • Re: Ironic

    by Martin Thompson,

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    Thanks for the nice words.

    I don't know what happened but the audio and slide sequencing leaves a lot to be desired.

  • Not Adrian Newey actually

    by Richard Richter,

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    The older one at the picture with both of them - that is Adrian, the younger one that is on solo picture (min 32-33) is Christian Horner. But I have them mixed up previously as well... :-) BTW: Really good talk - I always enjoy your talks and fully agree that it can't do no harm to try understand the stuff bellow better.

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