TimS comments on The Universal Medical Journal Article Error - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 06 April 2013 06:42:29PM *  0 points [-]

ArisKatsaris suggests browser refresh, not timestamps, is the issue.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 April 2013 07:02:58PM *  2 points [-]

ArisKatsaris suggests browser refresh, not timestamps, is the issue.

He is describing the same phenomenon. The timestamps give an indication as to how likely the race condition is to occur based on the delays between GETs and POSTs. If the comments were a day apart I would have tentatively suggested "Perhaps one of you deleted or replied to a comments page that was old?". Whereas given that the timestamps were within 3 minutes I could more or less definitively declare the question solved.

Comment author: TimS 06 April 2013 08:57:20PM 1 point [-]

Thanks. I'm not technologically fluent enough to tell the difference between what you said and what he said without the explanation.