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wtetzner
on Aug 24, 2012
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Some web development tips from a former Digg devel...
"Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science, that they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application."[1]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
firat
on Aug 24, 2012
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What is the definition of "result". My point is that result in this case is a "change of state" vs "no change in state".
rhizome
on Aug 25, 2012
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the result of multiple log out attempts will be "attemptor will be logged out."
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence