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bentronic

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bentronic··on HTTP GZIP Compression remote date and time leak
Those servers are out of spec, then. The RFC says it's supposed to be POSIX time, i.e., always in UTC. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952
bentronic··on Beyond Bash: Shell scripting in a typed, OO language
Powershell is exactly what bash should be (and this person wants). Their time would have better spent using and improving the pash project (open source Powershell on Mono): https://github.com/Pash-Project/Pash
bentronic··on ThingieQuery: a SQL plugin for Excel
I think the approach of https://airtable.com/ is a better solution for these kind of problems, but not everybody is free to change tools.
bentronic··on Why Go? Use Racket
That's too bad, because you missed the brilliant ending to the post, in which the author answers the question posed in the title:

> P.S. As noted in [link], Racket programs build and run much slower than Go programs.