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thomashartman1@gmail.com**20081001151216] hunk ./templates/introductiontomacid.st 31
+
+$!<p>Keeping application data in static files
+   may seem like a weird thing to do if you have gotten used to keeping application data in a database.
+   But it's not really that weird. !$ 
+
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+       
+
hunk ./templates/maciddatasafety.st 64
+
+   $! This might not have worked so well if the application required transactional integrity -- 
+   say, moving money between accounts. But using macid, if you set up your state appropriately, it should. !$
+
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-       <a href="http://www.ycombinator.com">Startup</a> guru paul graham
-       <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html">famously</a> created the web app
-       that would eventually become yahoo stores by just storing all application state in files.
-       
hunk ./templates/maciddatasafety.st 71
+   <p>(This point was <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html">famously</a> made by startup guru paul graham, who created the web app
+   that would eventually become yahoo stores by just storing all application state in files.)
+
+       
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+
+    instance fromData places, make sure that the default value is "", and that the form fails sanely
+    if the user inputs bad data.