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Why do you think they were paid to do this?
by lizardactivist 4y ago
Why do you think they were paid to do this?
- jfengel 4y agoTFA said so. One was hired by Chinese agents, as a private investigator. He called on an old friend to do the access, in exchange for a gift card.
- maerF0x0 4y agoWhat does TFA mean? (yes, i googled and I'm pretty sure it's not two factor authentication)
- wnevets 4y agothe fucking article
- chitowneats 4y agoMost likely derived from the developer phrase "RTFM" (read the fucking manual)
- jfengel 4y agoI would note that TFA has slightly ameliorated; it wasn't intended to sound mean as "the fucking article" suggests. It's commonly used to just mean "the article", with the swear word sort of disappearing. I hope I didn't cause offense; I just didn't want consider it.
- potatochup 4y agoI always thought it was "the featured article"
- throwaway81523 4y agoThe Fine Article. Like RTFM, Read The Fine Manual, or more often a slight variant.
- chitowneats 4y ago
- xeromal 4y agoIs TFA The Fucking Article? haha
- chitowneats 4y agoThe featured article ;) Edit: Sorry, the winky face was meant as sarcasm. I'm pretty sure most people mean "the fucking article", but there isn't any definition anywhere I can find. For now this is an acronym with, let's say, "reasonable doubt", about what it means.
- xeromal 4y agoOh much nicer than what I guessed. Haha
- smegsicle 4y agoetymologically spawned from 'RTFM' http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html
- chitowneats 4y agoTFA is not featured here.
- svachalek 4y ago"RTFM" -> "read TFA" is a fairly simple derivation.
- chitowneats 4y agoI agree and I commented something similar above. I'd be curious though to see the original derivation. It wasn't immediately clear to me despite a long history with being told to "rtfm".