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by maxxxxx 3121 days ago
A long time ago we had Scott Meyers for a week long workshop. He definitely knew his stuff and showed a lot of real world experience. But with a lot of "gurus" I have my doubts. A lot of advice from Scrum gurus falls apart when it meets reality.

I guess the ultimate advice should be given by people like Linus Torvalds who run large projects.
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throwaway_f8ed 3121 days ago
I will never question that he knows language and its obscurities, but real world in his case is even more different.

Scott Meyers is a C++ guy. I will bet that nowadays most of C++ programmers are in game development, HFT or other computationally expensive performance oriented areas, and there is this data-oriented design movement which goes against almost everything he ever said. There are entire constructs of language he is proficient in that are never used in real world.

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maxxxxx 3121 days ago
Back then I was at a C++ shop. He definitely knew how to deal with practical problems and wasn't just a language geek. This was more than 10 years ago so a lot of ideas from then are not fashionable anymore.
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blub 3121 days ago
Data-oriented programming is just one optimisation technique, not a revolutionary design movement.
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