Timeline for Design for Physics-SE
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| Feb 21, 2020 at 3:39 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Mod | @jin, I was reminded of this episode recently and I thought I'd drop in to once again express my personal appreciation for this stylish effort and to observer that it's biggest problem may have been that you brought it out nine years too early. Given the current popularity of dark mode you're looking pretty foresightful. | |
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| S Jul 4, 2016 at 20:04 | history | notice added | David ZMod | Historical significance | |
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| Nov 16, 2011 at 7:44 | comment | added | Martin Ueding | Yep, we clean our boards wet … not so much dust then. | |
| Mar 18, 2011 at 0:52 | comment | added | Mark C | @DMckee In both the former Soviet Union (Russia and Latvia, specifically) and Germany, the schools use sponges or rags with drying cloths or squeegees. | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 9:23 | answer | added | Midhat | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 3, 2011 at 14:33 | comment | added | Daniel | @Jin: for the record (and for whatever it is worth), i loved your original design: light-on-dark, blackboard, chalk, color-scheme, Mexican-hat (symmetry breaking FTW!), background equations (though you could include some General Relativity ;-)… FANTASTIC! I know some people prefer the dark-on-light version of the site, but all the elements you created are my dream come true: i wish i could do my TeX presentations exactly like this. 8-) | |
| Mar 2, 2011 at 8:27 | answer | added | Jeff Atwood | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Feb 25, 2011 at 2:33 | answer | added | multipole | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 23:19 | answer | added | Gordon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 22:25 | comment | added | John McAndrew | I love the blackboard theme and the light lettering which makes an intelligent use of grey colours. White on black would have been awful. On the other hand, does a theme realy matter? | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 22:13 | comment | added | Robert Filter | @Jin: Thank you very much for your decent work. But the white on black theme is looking very geek-ish and giving me problems reading the page. It is a nice theme, though, so could one invert it like @Tobias suggested? | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 22:12 | answer | added | Tamara Wijsman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 9:44 | answer | added | Tobias Kienzler | timeline score: 26 | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 9:09 | comment | added | Tobias Kienzler | @dmckee: wait, you got real slates? | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 5:03 | answer | added | Carl Brannen | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 4:57 | comment | added | Carl Brannen | Please no white on black, too hard on the eyes. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 21:02 | comment | added | Ted Bunn | For some reason the dust doesn't bother me, but I can certainly understand why it bothers others. I've heard it said that it's bad for electronic equipment. I don't know if that's true, but it's certainly plausible, and if so it's a good reason for making the switch. And yes, you're right about bad faux blackboards -- they're the worst. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 20:33 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Ted, I agree with all your remarks about the advantages of blackboards, but I loath the dust. Of course, the worst of both worlds are the artificial greenish blackboards which are so much less legible and erasable than real slates. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 20:14 | comment | added | Ted Bunn | As far as I'm concerned, blackboards are much better than whiteboards. Much of the time, whiteboards don't erase completely unless you stop to scrub them. And when you see a piece of chalk, you know it'll write, unlike a whiteboard marker. Finally, as a curmudgeonly old man I love the idea that when I'm writing on a blackboard I'm using literally stone-age technology. I lament the day our building switched from blackboards to whiteboards. | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 17:00 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Jonathan: At ::random land grant university:: the answer is the physics building was put up shortly after Sputnik and the boards haven't been replaced since then. Besides, half the inhabitants were hired shortly after Sputnik and they're a little set in their ways. (Though actually we're losing the real post-sputnik generation pretty fast, now.) | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 12:52 | comment | added | Jonathan. | I've never understood why physicists use blackboards when there are whiteboards and even "smart"boards now. | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 22:39 | answer | added | Ted Bunn | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 19:56 | comment | added | QGR | The Mexican hat looks too computer generated, and not at all like a blackboard sketch. | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 18:48 | answer | added | gigacyan | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 15:31 | answer | added | TROLLHUNTER | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 15:28 | answer | added | QGR | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 11:18 | answer | added | user68 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 10:22 | answer | added | Marek | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 19, 2011 at 1:57 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 18, 2011 at 22:46 | history | asked | Jin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |