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by teach 3613 days ago
Looks like you need to brush up on your regular expressions.

> For F(acebook|uck)'s Sake Syndication

The pipe (|) means or, so the regex is indicating that FFSS can stand for either:

For Facebook's Sake Syndication, or

For Fuck's Sake Syndication

I thought it was clever, anyway.

2 comments

I don't know about clever, but it's a common idiom on tech forums.
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