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A comment on Ask HN: Why is free space pink colored?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is free space pink colored? by pavlov on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:13AM (#7390580)
Probably a Microsoft programmer once wrote a line like this as a placeholder so he could get something on screen:

fillColor = (used) ? 0x0000ff : 0xff00c0;

And then he got an emergency assignment to fix an obscure SQL Server bug related to NTFS extended attributes, and "fillColor" was never touched again.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is free space pink colored? by tomw1808 on Thursday March 13, 2014 @04:39AM (#7390639)
is it 0xff00c0 ?

On my windows machine here its either

0xff00ff or 0x0000ff

Eventually he was just lazy and had no color palette ready?

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