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I'm shocked "shape" isn't near the top
by whywhywhywhy 20d ago
I'm shocked "shape" isn't near the top
- Labo333 20d agoI guess a lot of people use shape, for example to discuss frontend.
- bitwize 19d ago"Shape" appears to come from JavaScript development wherein an object's "shape" is its structure: the set of properties and methods it is expected to have.
- marginalia_nu 19d agoIt's always been pretty common in programming discussions. Here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 that uses the term shape to describe an algorithm: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/40-wasted-resources/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/40-wasted-resources/ And again in 2023, I use it twice in the same blog post both for data and code, and it definitely had no AI input: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/