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The Sort Of Surprise Every JavaScript Developer Deserves

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1 year ago 307.8K views 0 shares

The Sort Of Surprise Every JavaScript Developer Deserves

Innocent newbie: "I'll just use array.sort() to sort these numbers!" JavaScript: *sorts lexicographically* "Did I stutter?" Nothing says "welcome to JavaScript" quite like discovering your numbers are being sorted as strings. That moment when you realize you need array.sort((a,b) => a-b) and question all your life choices that led you to web development. It's basically JavaScript's hazing ritual - "Oh, you thought programming would make sense? That's adorable."

Self-Proclaimed ML Engineer Discovers How Strings Work

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1 year ago 399.8K views 0 shares

Self-Proclaimed ML Engineer Discovers How Strings Work

Behold, the "ML Engineer" who discovered that Python sorts strings alphabetically instead of numerically! The horror! Next breaking news: water is wet. What we're witnessing here is the classic "I didn't read the docs but it's definitely the language's fault" syndrome. Python's sorted() is working perfectly—it's sorting ["9%", "83%", "25%"] as strings, exactly as it should when you give it strings. Pro tip for our aspiring "ML Engineer": try sorted([int(x.strip('%')) for x in a]) next time. Or maybe stick to Excel?