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If you wanted to go through several thousand by hand though in an unsorted list, that would be a pain.

The unsorted one is a pain to search, but you can just slap things on to end without a worry.

This could help in theory, at least if you have a way to sort the output data (that will be unsorted).

These are just a bunch of URLs unsorted (or maybe lexicographically sorted) in a file.

Couple of thoughts, unsorted brain dump: * Ranking/Karma systems can and will be abused.

It (kind of) encodes stack by shuffling some elements in unsorted data.

That makes this a fair comparison, but I agree that seeing a linear unsorted search would have been interesting too.

I got it, it didn't even occur to me the array would be unsorted.

Particular algorithms operate on particular data structures; a binary search on a sorted list makes sense, while a binary search on an unsorted list is meaningless.

Kind of like an unsorted array vs a sorted array.

Since it's unsorted, we'd need to read the entire table- a full scan.

Both PDFs have a ton of unsorted, unordered information.

Store bookmarks in "unsorted bookmarks" by default when I use ctrl-D.

"I would ask the candidate a simple sounding question "You have a file on your computer with 100,000 unsorted numbers, each number on a new line, Sort them and write the output into a new file.

The only "major" difference I've managed to find with the Dutch system is a slightly bigger emphasis in individual candidates due to "unsorted" party listings (although the article isn't quite clear about it, if the Finnish parties can sort their own list on the ballot, the systems are pretty much the same).