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Jake Levine

Personal blog · jakelevine.me/blog · on HN as jrlevineculturewriting

Jake Levine's personal blog at jakelevine.me covers culture and writing. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Don't learn how to code, learn how to make things”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for advice on moving into tech, such as trying a simple app project and asking technical friends for input. One commenter points to a post titled "Don't learn how to code".

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

jrlevine · 426 karma · member since 2010

http://jakelevine.me/blog

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Don't learn how to code, learn how to make things
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. basicallydan · 2013-03-14Recommends
    Question: Do you have any technical friends? If so, take them out for a beer and see what they think. Either way, it might help to get a bit of technical experience. If you want to start making these apps yourself, and I think that might be a good idea, think of the simplest possible one and try making it. This is a good article I read earlier: http://www.jakelevine.me/blog/2013/03/dont-learn-how-to-code... Many peo…

    Comment linking /blog/2013/03/dont-learn-how-to-code-learn-how-to-make-things/

    on “I have money and time, how do I make the jump to tech?”
  2. alexmr · 2013-04-05

    Submitted Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps as a story · 167 points

    HN discussion
  3. kine · 2013-03-13

    Submitted Don't learn how to code, learn how to make things as a story · 163 points

    HN discussion
  4. jrlevine · 2012-02-13

    Submitted Facebook, It's Like Instagram for Birthdays as a story · 89 points

    HN discussion
  5. jrlevine · 2011-06-08

    Submitted "The Internet Is My Religion" as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  6. jrlevine · 2011-07-18

    Submitted It's Time for a Social Network Neutrality as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  7. jrlevine · 2011-08-29

    Submitted The Social Web is Splintering (ftw) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  8. jrlevine · 2011-01-12

    Submitted Curating the Curators: Consumption on the Social Web, For an Audience of 1 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. jrlevine · 2012-05-21

    Submitted How Technology is Making Us Stupid and Destroying Everything Good as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. tannerc · 2014-01-03

    Submitted The Internet isn't Over, It's just Getting Started as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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