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Aug 5, 2005
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Have you made any assignments in this space?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Riffing on Larry's profound distaste for the use of the word 'ask' as a noun (a distaste I share)... It's been three years since I heard the question "Have you made any assignments in this space?" during a meeting and I still don't know what the person was trying to say.

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Aug 5, 2005
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Why does the Internet Explorer animated logo arrange its frame vertically?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

If you ever tried to build a custom animated logo for Internet Explorer, you cetainly noticed that the frames of the animation are arranged vertically rather than horizontally. Why is that? Because it's much more efficient. Recall that bitmaps are stored as a series of rows of pixels. In other words, if you number the pixels of a bitmap like ...

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