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Crabbertoday at 2:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

Perhaps I missed the full name somewhere in the thread, but what is TFA?


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mikestewtoday at 3:00 PM

Sibling comment got the definition, but “TFA” comes from “RTFA”: “read the fucking article”, in response to “yeah, but what about ($THING that was discussed at length in the first paragraph)?”

Origins: “RTFM”. “What’s the switch for ls that prints time stamps?”

“Read the fucking manual.”

tonyedgecombetoday at 2:30 PM

The fucking article. Or you could imagine a more polite alternative.