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Ask HN: Best books/tutorials you read in 2013?

13 points by Anon84 ↗ HN
Now that the year is coming to a close and we have all gone through a long list of resources.

What would you say were the best books articles or tutorials you read? Or are planning to read in 2014?

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The Information A History, A Theory, A Flood. is the book that I wanted to write and then I found out it existed and the author did a better job than I probably could have.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...

Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja I enjoyed. Nothing that was like "ZOMG!" but it did help me think better about my JS code. http://www.manning.com/resig/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt Has a new book out I haven't read, yet, but her other books have been great. especially http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Donna-Tartt/dp/1400...

Then neither a tutorial nor book, but pretty helpful: Bookmarking the comments of people like Paul Graham. Since he usually makes insightful comments on interesting articles, it works as a sorta hackish "Best Of" link https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

wturner
"Mastery" by Robert Greene was good. It actually works better as an audio book as it's wrapped in narratives of people who went on to do extraordinary things. Hence listening lends better to it than than reading.

I read "Effective Javascript" which is good.

Other than that just a bunch of scattered tuts and pieces all over the place.