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Detangling Life and Work with Programmer Wisdom
Programmers are some of the least known, understood, or inquired of, people on the planet.
One of Christoph C. Cemper’s goals, in his book, Spaghetti Code: Detangling Life and Work with Programmer Wisdom, is to bring more recognition to this vast group of professionals and the amazing work they perform.
CEO, of LinkResearchTools, Christoph C. Cemper began programming computers, as a young teen. At that time, the Commodore 64 was one of the first “home” computers. Until then, computers, and time on them, was available only to an elite few. Bill Gates, for instance, wrote in his first book, about the opportunity, at his private school to use access time to a mainframe computer with the school’s teletype machine.
Now, from the vantage of more than three decades of being a part of the programmer community, Cemper relates his stories from the front lines of programming. He provides a unique perspective of work and life, as seen from a programmer’s stance. And he provides some “programmer wisdom” to suggest some solutions for the obstacles of work and life. As well, in the book, he advocates for the profession of programmer and the great future available, as part of the programmer community.
About The Author
Christoph C. Cemper began working with online marketing in 2003, providing search engine organization (SEO) consulting and link-building services to businesses and business professionals. Due to a pressing need for reliable, comprehensive, and accurate SEO software, he developed an internal tool for his own business, in 2006, that could verify links associated with websites.
This initial software tool became a baseline product, and evolved into the company’s complete software service, LinkResearchTools (LRT).
The goal of the company, and its software suite, was to ensure that each business controlled their link associations on the internet. By doing so, the business controlled their image and brand name; the LRT software allowed them to disavow links to websites, which they felt were discordant with their values and image.
The importance of a business recovering from Google penalties, protecting against future penalties, outgrowing their competitors, and increasing their traffic through proactive link building becomes imperative, as the search engines gain greater control and power.
When the famous Google Penguin update changed the rules of SEO in 2012, Christoph launched Link Detox®, a software built for finding links that posed a risk in a website’s backlink profile, and introduced the technology and formal process for ongoing link audits in 2012, as well as pro-active removal and disavowal of bad links.
Christoph focuses on leading his team to remain cutting edge in staying informed, and adapting to, any changes to search engine algorithms that affect the company’s clients and their businesses. In the post-Penguin era, every link-building mistake can lead to a Google penalty resulting in lost business.
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Chapters in the book
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Bits, Bytes, and Bugs
Chapter 2 Moore’s Law
Chapter 3 Version Control
Chapter 4 10X Better Is Just A Start
Chapter 5 Death Marching
Chapter 6 Feature Creep
Chapter 7 Onboarding
Chapter 8 Minimum Viable Product
Chapter 9 Freemium
Chapter 10 Hotfix
Chapter 11 Waterfall Optimism
Chapter 12 24/7
Chapter 13 Garbage In, Garbage Out
Chapter 14 Can You Quickly
Chapter 15 Batch Process
Chapter 16 Big Data
Chapter 17 Wookies, Coders, & Our AI Masters
References
Index in the book
10X developers, 49
Abraham Maslow, 68
abstraction muscle, 61, 66
abstraction skill, 62
Adam Smith, 94
advertisement selling company, 150
Alec Baldwin, 55
Alexa, 69, 71, 148
Alexander Fleming, 132
Alexandria, 43
algorithm, 23, 148, 156, 164
Altair, 117
Amazon, 7, 10, 15, 55, 69, 71, 72, 90, 141, 148, 163
Amy Chua, 36
anachronistic dilemmas, 9
antitrust activities?, 153
Antonio Villas-Boas, 73
Apple, 26, 41, 53, 56
Arthur C. Clarke, 100
artificial intelligence, 19, 164
Artificial intelligence, 165
Atari, 162
avoidable failures, 133
backlink, 7
backlinks, 6, 24
Backlinks, 5
BAFTA, 30
BASIC, 18
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, 36
Behind the Cloud, 115
Ben Horowitz, 85, 89, 112, 129
Beowulf, 23
Berkeley Breathed, 166
Bertha von Suttner, 121
Best Buy, 14
BGR, 45
biblical principle, 54
big data, 154
Bill Gates, 17, 18, 19, 94, 116, 128, 162, 165
Bill Murray, 136
bits and bytes, 12
black-hat, 10, 24
Bolshevik revolution, 115
Brad Pitt, 155
Bregenz Festival, 167
bunny rabbit, 147
Business Insider, 73
California Employment Law Report, 80
Captain Hook, 129
carpal tunnel, 102
Cathy O’Neil, 154
CBS News Report,, 7
CERN, 25
chocolate eggs, 147
Christoph Waltz, 58
Clint Eastwood, 24
Coco Chanel, 68
Coke, 85
college humanities, 63
Commodore, 13
Commodore 64, 13, 134
communications satellites, 25
computer game, 10
computer illiterate, 160
Consumer Supported Agriculture, 124
Corning, 55
creative process, 62
dance of litigation, 154
Dash buttons, 15
David Heinemeier Hansson, 8, 108
death march, 9, 59
Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion, and Purpose, 164
DJ Khaled, 30
Do The Right Thing, 10
Don’t Be Evil, 10
Don’t Make Me Think, 34
Donald Sutherland, 24
Dr. Atul Gawande, 131
Edward Yourdon, 17, 64
Einstein, 122
Elon Musk, 165
ergonomic problems, 103
Eric Ries, 58
Erwin Schrödinger, 41
Etsy, 84
European Union, 153
existential threat, 165
Facebook, 7, 10, 102, 141
Falco, 92
feature creep, 69
Finding Flow, 141
first language, 50
forcing functions, 133
Franz Kafka, 107
Freemium, 98
Genghis Khan, 7
George S. Patton, 49
Godzilla, 23
Google, 45
Gordon Moore, 29
Grant Cardone, 48, 108, 109, 110, 112, 135
Grendel, 23
Groundhog Day, 136
Habsburg, 20
Harrison-Ford, 167
Hello World, 13, 167
Her, 70
Hewlett Packard, 17
Hollywood, 27
hotfixing, 104
Hugh Jackman, 65
Hummer, 31
I, Robot, 79
If You’re Not First, You’re Last, 112
IMDB, 122
Ingeborg Bachmann, 137
Intel, 29, 32
International Programmer’s Day, 27, 28, 68, 166
internet neighborhood, 7
internet of things, 14
iOS, 14, 26
Isaacson, 33, 63
- Bradford Hipps, 62
James Garner, 24
Jason Fried, 8, 108
JavaScript, 28
Jeff Bezos, 56, 143
Jerry Seinfeld, 147
Joaquin Phoenix, 70
John Lasseter, 54
Jon Ive, 54
Khan Academy, 28
Laurene Powell, 53
Leave It To Beaver, 166
Legos, 163
link farms, 6, 7
LinkedIn, 101
LinkResearchTools, 6, 34, 56, 61, 94, 135, 163, 167
MacGyver, 101
Madame Curie, 121
magic box, 16
Malice, 55
Marc Andreessen, 85
Marc Benioff, 115
Marc Zuckerberg, 164
Mark Zuckerberg, 162, 164
Mars Needs Moms, 166
Matthew 21:22, 54
Matthew Broderick, 122
Michael Burry, 155
Michael Corleone, 29
Microsoft, 10, 18, 116, 128, 152
Microsoft Office, 150
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 140
Moore’s Law, 29, 31, 32, 33, 37, 170
Mother Teresa, 153
Motley Fool, 72
Myspace, 102
NASA, 24
Nate Silver, 164
National Geographic, 16
Nations At Risk, 17
Netflix, 94, 98
Netflix,, 98
Nick Swinmurn, 163
Nicole Kidman, 55
Niki Lauda, 12
NINJA loans, 30
Nobel Prize, 121
Norman Vincent Peale, 54
Ocean Wild Things, 95
odd snippets, 16
Oskar Kokoschka, 76
Paul Allen, 18, 116
Pavlov’s dogs, 128
Paypal, 162
Peacetime CEO, 130
Penguin, 20, 23, 24
Penguin,, 6
penicillin, 132
Pepsi, 85
Peter Pan, 129
Peter Thiel, 111
philosophers, 132
Pierre Omidyar, 162
Pinterest, 77, 78
Pizza, 17
Popular Electronics, 116, 117, 118
potlatch, 30
public opinion, 10
Pulitzer Prize, 166
Python, 159
quantum computing, 12, 32, 33
qubit, 32
Rachel Potvin, 44
Reddit, 69, 146
Rework, 8, 9, 108
Rhonda Byrne, 54
Robert Noyce, 33
Robinson Crusoe, 163
Rupert Murdoch, 145
Samsung, 29
Schönbrunn Palace, 20
Sean Percival, 5
SearchEngineLand, 148
Self-fulfilling prophecies, 33
self-motivation ethic, 142
SEOktoberfest, 120
September 13th, 28
Serapeum, 43
Sigmund Freud, 47
slice of software, 8
smart home, 15
smartphone, 14
smartphones, 26
software apps, 14
software engineers, 10, 45, 61
Software Engineers, 16
software program, 6
software programmers, 9, 34
Software programmers, 50
software programs, 16, 159
Space Cowboys, 24, 25
spaghetti code, 9, 20, 27
Stanley Kubrick, 100
STEM programs, 162
Stephen King, 20
Steve Jobs, 17, 52, 53, 54, 55, 63, 170
Steve Krug, 34
Steve Wozniak, 52, 54
Stoics, 15
Swordfish, 65
SXSW Conference, 164
Tech Target, 125
TechCrunch, 71
Tesla, 104
The 10X Rule, 109
The 4-Hour Workweek, 137, 138, 139, 146
The Big Short, 30, 155
The Checklist Manifesto, 131
The Godfather, 29
The Hard Thing about Hard Things, 112
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, 85, 129
the human race, 161
The Innovators, 29, 33
the law of attraction, 40
The Lean Startup, 58
The Matrix, 15
The New York Times, 62
The Onion, 125
The Penguin, 6, 23
The Plain Brown Wrapper Book Of Computers, 26
The Road Ahead, 19, 116, 165, 169
The Second Great Scare, 20
The Secret, 54
The Wealth of Nations, 94
Theodore Roosevelt, 84
Tim Berners-Lee, 25
Tim Ferriss, 137, 142, 144, 145
Tim Lister, 44
Timothy Lister, 86
Tom DeMarco, 44, 86
Tommy Lee Jones, 24
Tony Hsieh, 89, 163
tracking packet, 160
Travis Bradberry, 113
Twitter, 141
UniverseToday, 25
Van Gogh, 69
venture capital, 130
version control, 42
Version control, 46
Vienna Zoo, 20
vision, 52
vitamin P, 17, 158
Walsh Burke, 26
Walter Isaacson, 29
Waltzing with Bears, 86
Waltzing With Bears, 44
WarGames, 122
Warren Buffett, 145
Wartime CEO, 130
waterfall process, 107
Weapons of Math Destruction, 154
weight loss advice, 7
Western mothers, 36
white-hat, 10
Wiener Schnitzel, 38
Wikipedia, 162
Will Smith, 79
William Shakespeare, 115
Windows, 14, 26
Wired, 141
Wolfgang Puck, 159
World Heritage Sites, 143
Y2k, 20, 27
YouTube, 30, 93, 94, 148
YouTube Red, 94
Zappos, 89, 90, 129, 163
Zero To One, 111
Zoo Vienna, 167