Where has Luke been? - Call for Coders 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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as some of you have noticed I've been conspicuously absent from the channel
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for a while now since PAX East for videos on our channel that aren't the
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WAN Show or don't involve everyone in the company lonus has hosted 22 of them
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and I have hosted a grand total of two
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am I getting fired am I getting phased out in favor of clickbait topics and
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crazy thumbnails I've been reading your comments and I do appreciate your
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concern and kind words but no oh nothing dramatic I have been voluntarily
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reacomodo plane and I want you to join me so what the heck is Floatplane well
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I'll answer that question but first a seemingly unrelated broader statement
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the trend today is for social platforms to grow user count at all costs This Is
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How They attract online creators and build loyalty to their platform it makes
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sense the problem with this model for creators is that this loyalty is pretty
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much a gun to the head that says abandon us and you'll lose everything that you
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worked for as a Creator losing your platform is like losing your job in a
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field where people are often self-employed covering their own costs
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for things like medical insurance that's a scary Prospect the problem for the
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audience is that social platforms usually have their own agenda with
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respect to Big Data which is a deeper conversation for another time these
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things motivate them to make changes to their algorithm that can benefit the
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service but harm the viewer Creator relationship like delivering trending
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videos to an activity feed rather than the content that was actively followed
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or subscribe to or in another more topical example they might just up and
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turn off monetization because their advertising partners aren't fans of a
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particular style of content fair or not this pulls the rug out from under
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creators feet so in the short term our goal with Floatplane is very simple
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we're going to take over the Galaxy or
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failing the that will build a platform for online content creators to deliver
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their content directly to their audiences without the restrictions
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imposed by traditional services in the long term however Floatplane media's
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more General mission is to develop really cool tools to reduce online
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creators dependence on a single social platform and give them more time and
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resources to create while enriching the
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experience for their loyal communities with stable elegant apps it's win-win so
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even if it doesn't soar it probably won't sink cuz it's a Floatplane for
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the past few months we've had a pre-alpha riding on the back of our
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Forum with Early Access streaming downloading mostly working and the CMS
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and transcoding systems hobbling along but that's not the kind of futureproof
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solution that we ultimately want and that's where you come in the true
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version of our metaphorical Floatplane needs a lot more work before we can
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start showing it off to the pilots we need another software engineer or
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computer scientist to join the team and help us make magic this will involve
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brainstorming creative and innovative ways to tackle the Myriad of issues that
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come with developing this type of platform communicating with our team of
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two Canadians on each end of the country some guy in the UK another dude in
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Sweden and possibly even someone hanging out in Belgium extensive documentation
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and commenting practices to make it possible for others to work on the code
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that you write in the future and coordinating with our team members to
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make sure that what we're building will actually function at the end of the day
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and More in terms of the requirements we have for your abilities you need to have
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strong node.js JavaScript and websocket skills along with professional software
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development experience the more the better we don't require a degree or
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piece of paper that says that you know how to code but you must roughly have
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the equivalent coding knowledge of a postsecondary graduate how you got it is
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your business for bonus points it would be great to have experience working in
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Agile development teams experience working on complex multi-layer
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applications and microservices experience with web transcoding and a
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passion for interactive media modern web content creations and building
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communities we're mainly recruiting for a developer that can do server client
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relationship handling in node but as a software engineer at Floatplane media
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you will be modifying and hacking additional functionality into
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pre-existing systems and creating some new ones from scratch some of the many
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things you may be working on include the video Distribution Systems both for
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downloading and streaming the comments and chat systems tools for creators to
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manage and improve their pages and interact with their audiences elegant
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highly available web services to support our front-end platform front-end web
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engineering that is functional beautiful and has a premium feel applications for
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one of the many non-web platforms that we do plan to support in the future
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including iOS Android consoles and more
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agile tools for internal or external use that let us support our customers and
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partners for a better overall experience for everyone and lots more features that
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we haven't thought of yet so after all that if you're interested there's a
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Google form linked under the video that I'd like everyone to fill out before
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going any further after we spend spend some time collecting those successfully
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completed forms there will be further instructions that will include where to
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send a resume cover letter and portfolio
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along with the details of a timed coding challenge that we will be holding which
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I think will be a fun way to help you stand out from the crowd if you want to
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be on the ground floor of making something awesome that people will
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actually use and enjoy I would encourage you to join me and together we can rule
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the galaxy as father and son or possibly
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daughter