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Re:Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed by JPKab on Monday September 16, 2013 @08:59PM (#6396946)
Don't even get me started on the mediocre books. It's a shame, because there are still some very good books being produced with the O'Reilly name on them, but no longer can I trust them to be good because there's an animal on the cover.

The worst book I have bought in the past two years was O'Reilly's Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone.

My quick, capsule review of that book: Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books. Ironically, the "Sam's Teach Yourself" Node.js book (which I had already gone through and was hoping to expand upon with the O'Reilly purchase) was vastly superior.

I wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed by franze on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @04:43AM (#6398255)
>Piece of Shit. Bad example code, horrific continuity, next to no editing, it had everything needed to be lumped in with the crappy tech books.

exactly the same can be said about their couchdb-book (first edition)

i have worse things to say about their "Data Source Handbook", the fact that they STILL sell it is unbelievable

but to be fair: the functionalJS book and DOM enlightenment (see http://domenlightenment.com) were quite decent. both books recommended.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed by JPKab on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @06:11PM (#6408495)
While we're being fair, I'm currently working through the O'Reilly "Clojure Programming" book, and it is fantastic. The other Clojure books assume tons of Java knowledge, while this one takes a "coming from Ruby or Python" approach.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed by cgag on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:16PM (#6415190)
Yes, Clojure Programming is amazing.
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed by ilamont on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:30PM (#6397255)
I wish I could get my money back, but I don't think Amazon does refunds for ebooks.

There is a one-week window to return ebooks in the U.S.

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