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zeckalpha on July 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to design a multi-user ajax web application to...

However, in this situation, it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

swah on July 9, 2013 [–]

I don't get how this applies here. "Asking for permission" simplifies the system, in this description. Of course, if the conflict rate gets too high, a token-based system fails.

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