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Not that I am envious for the karma, but I wonder why this was not merged into my exactly identical submission 1 hour earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item
by DoubleMalt 13y ago
Not that I am envious for the karma, but I wonder why this was not merged into my exactly identical submission 1 hour earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5749969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5749969) -- afaict there was no ?repost or similar stunt ...
- benjamincburns 13y agoBeing that HN was designed to handle a metric shit ton of traffic on very little hardware, I'd imagine that it has adopted a weak consistency model for these types of things.
- prodigal_erik 13y agoFrom the markup, that submission has a trailing slash while this one does not. This is one of few ways two URLs can differ but cannot ever point at separate resources, so more clever URL handling would have noticed it's a dup.