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Comment on 10 things I did and do to improve my (scientific) writing by end of the year: crisis | CAIS

end of the year: crisis | CAIS — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:40:11 +0000

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Comment on The designer’s “I think the controls are intuitive”-claim by roman

roman — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:11:06 +0000

Not in papers, but during encounters with ‘designers’.

The rant of course cannot be generalized, but I am interested, have anybody else got similar experience?

Comment on The designer’s “I think the controls are intuitive”-claim by Murrmurr

Murrmurr — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:47:41 +0000

Do you actually find that claim in papers and such?

Comment on Why is a white-text-on-black theme a poor choice? by Roman Bednarik

Roman Bednarik — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:09:50 +0000

That’s a good point. I could even test that empirically.

Comment on Why is a white-text-on-black theme a poor choice? by TomK

TomK — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:59:08 +0000

I use console vim for coding and I try to fit as much 80-columns-wide console windows on the screen as I can (horizontally). I make the consoles as narrow as the font readability allows.
I recently realized I can fit ~40 more columns when I set white background than with dark background. So I think black on white is readable even at sizes that white on black makes unreadable.

Comment on Deadline extensions, everywhere by carolina

carolina — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:19:38 +0000

For what I am observing is:
Institutions are demanding, to their researchers, to publish in high ranked venues. One of the reasons for this can be linked to funding as you have mentioned, but at another level.

Mainly those high ranked forums are already established and they have existing demand, and keep on adding. A relative young conference, or a venue that wants to increase its rank, must push deadlines until they have enough quality papers.

Perhaps I am wrong, but that is how I look at it.

Also I have experience a authors demand for extension. For example, if a conference, presents SEVERAL emails asking for an extra week, just some hrs before the deadline the date is extended. At least I have lived that.

Comment on Deadline extensions, everywhere by roman

roman — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:53:16 +0000

So do you think that high-quality conferences won’t have deadline extensions?

Comment on Deadline extensions, everywhere by carolina

carolina — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:08:58 +0000

or other parameters have an impact on this: quantity VS quality.

At least some of the events I want to join, besides that do not have extensions, your papers are difficult to be accepted, as the average is 30% of the submissions.

Just food for the though. I have no idea, but I guess there is more than one reason.

Comment on Pearls of today by roman

roman — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:16:27 +0000

Ilkka: nobody dares, obviously.