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Re:Some web development tips from a former Digg developer by wtetzner on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:32PM (#4429795)
"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]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence

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Re:Some web development tips from a former Digg developer by firat on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:48PM (#4429861)
What is the definition of "result". My point is that result in this case is a "change of state" vs "no change in state".
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Re:Some web development tips from a former Digg developer by rhizome on Saturday August 25, 2012 @02:30PM (#4432770)
the result of multiple log out attempts will be "attemptor will be logged out."
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