evilthinker

First of I'll assume that by computer science you really mean software engineering, more specifically network and web applications engineering. Otherwise if you want deep CS foundations start by getting a good CS theory book (Sipser or Hopcroft et Al.), and a good algorithms book(Skiena or Cormen), and complement them with some introductory logic(phil/math introductions are generally good enough).

For the "how does the web work question", the real question is if you are really interested in knowing that, if so "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" gives a really in depth analysis of protocols at the different levels of abstraction. Otherwise most web related O'Reilly books cover the surface of what you need to know to develop applications at most small corporations.

Prelude> head [] * Exception: Prelude.head: empty list

Damn I think might need to trace this one.

Still that is more than one can say about most dynamic languages.

I don't think that there will be that many competition, the ML folks that really want to try something new will go to F#, the Lisp folks will go to Clojure. Still there aren't that many reasons to abandon Common Lisp for Clojure(specially with Oracle controlling the JVM), or ML for F#(for Haskell maybe, but Haskell has its problems too).

Why are people still discussing this? Start-ups don't grow on trees. If there is something to be investigated it will, if there are any problems with angel financing they'll be known, meanwhile all this speculation is a waste of precious time.

I choose the music style according to what I feel like in a given day, but here are some favorites:

Dark Ambient: Lustmord, Gustaf Hildebrand, Robert Rich

"IDM": Aphex Twin(anything choosen from what I have) and Autechre

Metal: Burzum(filosofem), Xasthur, and mostly atmospheric BM

Industrial: Suicide Commando, VNV Nation, SPK

(Fin)NRG: Alek Szahala and Nomic

Classical: Bach, Handel, Liszt and Chopin

Demoscene music: Bitfellas radio

I will generally create a mix of from the above styles in a playlist and listen to it, when it begins to bother me (after some hours) I'll just change music style.

Also sometimes I just get some game CD and listen to the tracks, usually I choose Total Annihilation.

Those are not reason on not to use C++, but reason on why some people shouldn't be using C++ in the first place. Yes you can do it in python unless you want speed, if I am to interface my python code with C or C++ why can't I write them in C++ in the first place? Also if I were to interface any scripting language code with C I would probably go with Lua.

Yes learn it, you should also learn at least one language per paradigm, it will give you a wider perspective on programming and a flexible mind. IMHO one should learn at least: Haskell(or something ML based like OCaML or F#), C++(regardless of what anyone says it will be an useful insight), Java or C#(also check D if you want), something Lisp based(Scheme is small and simple), perhaps some Prolog, Erland and Ada.

Oh and see something of Forth if you like the looks of it and some assembly.

He is kidding right? iTex?

How is that any better than an engine programmed by experts? How is forking going to help us getting uniform display of the elements?