Obviously, Amazon knows the right way to do this but has decided it isn’t worth the effort. Amazon presents the author list sorted by first name.īen Winters doesn’t belong in B he should be in W with Donald Westlake. When I look for Kindle book deals at Amazon, for example, I often scan the lists of authors whose books are on sale. I’ve noticed this happening more often as it’s become more common for lists to be sorted by programs than by people. When you are used to that convention, it’s jarring to see it reversed. In the US, for example, the convention is that people’s names should be sorted alphabetically in lastname firstname order, even when they are presented in firstname lastname order. Here, I’m more interested in the conventions we use to decide which items should be sorted before others. When computer scientists discuss sorting, they usually focus on the efficiency of various algorithms. Later that week, I was able to recoup some of that wasted time by using what I’d learned to sort a long list in a program I was writing for work. Too many titles are clumped together in the Ds because they start with “Disney’s.” To waste some time when I should have been raking leaves, I played around with ways to sort titles that would get around that problem. Next post Previous post The key to sorting in PythonĪ couple of weeks ago, a member of The Incomparable Slack complained that the list of offerings on the new Disney+ service wan’t convenient for scanning.
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