On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, David WE Roberts wrote:
I still don't understand why the latest threads want to snuggle up next to the negative scores instead of the positive scores.
Sorting on several fields can be quite tricky. I remember, once, many many years ago, changing a very slow bubble sort of a list of customers to a shell sort that took 5% of the time. The data entry person complained because the sort wasn't "stable." That is, if there were multiple customers with the same last name (what I was asked to sort on) the new list didn't keep the customer numbers in correct order, something I'd not been asked to do.[1] Alas, the boss decided that the extra work needed to do the second stage of the sort wasn't worth the time and effort. Here, there may be a subtle bug in that stage, or the devs haven't completely implemented it as yet.
[1]She'd asked for this because with the old routine she could have printed out the list on index cards and hand sorted them faster. I never said it, but I couldn't help thinking that some people are never satisfied, even if they get exactly what they asked for.
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