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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by goodpoint on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:00PM (#33536301)
> Seriously I was never aware how badly the word's meaning has been butchered by the SV techbros until I joined the site.

Spot on.

> However Gates definitely deserves the title, he had helped make some significant contributions a few years back by co-authoring a paper in complexity theory next to a very prominent name in the field.

Wait, what?

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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by nequo on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:32PM (#33536688)
It might be Gates and Papadimitriou (1979): Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal.

https://dodona.ugent.be/exercises/189028897/media/gates1979....

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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by jdale27 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:32PM (#33536693)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X79...
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by spoils19 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:29PM (#33536668)
> Wait, what?

Gates definitely deserves the title, he had helped make some significant contributions a few years back by co-authoring a paper in complexity theory next to a very prominent name in the field.

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