[KMStraub]

Sorry, I'm nerdy but I guess not nerdy enough to be in on the joke. Could someone explain it to me? I'm "the business guy" in my startup, though I'm actually a girl.

[gaius]

It's big-O notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

[dnorris10]

Just a fancy way of saying linear (in this case).