Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
he's the loud-mouthed dunce you'd avoid at parties
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Russell Brown,
At least he admits (clumsily) that these 'standards' never had anything to do with improving children's learning; only with helping put-upon parents choose the 'right' school (despite them sneaky teachers keeping vital clues from them).
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Sarah Wedde,
And now here he is, sending us letters in Comic Sans, charmingly illustrated with Microsoft clipart. Rock on your bad-arse self Grandpa.
nice
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Will de Cleene,
substance over style
why treat them as mutually exclusive?
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Jarno van der Linden,
these types of presentations also tend to get re-used a lot for different conferences
all the more reason...
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
To me it’s like criticizing an artist for bad grammar in the gallery programme.
more like for supplying fogged googles before you enter the exhibit
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Emma Hart,
Yet look at how many advertisements, signs and suchlike are still laid out in ALL CAPS because their designers prioritise the blockier layout over actual readability?
Same with the rash of documents with full-page flush right margins, even though it makes their contents harder to read.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Marketing team would focus on making it look pretty. I was thinking more of a minimally-design-competent team member or shared PA if such roles still exist in such orgs. Someone in CERN's vast staff must know how to lay out a readable document on screen?
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Not a universal problem either. NASA's public material is hardly cutting-edge design, but it's always clean, consistent and easy to read - and puts the focus where it deserves to be, on the awesome content.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I am a fan of plain black on white for that sort of stuff, trust me.
And the audience was not just the ubergeeks in the room - or they shouldn't have done such a great publicity tease campaign beforehand.