I said using not imposed

@percusse tens of millions love Putin. Communism is a success ;)

@percusse You are now the CEO of arara Corp.

@tohecz Russia is not using communism officially since Gorbacov (actually never did but that's another debate)

@percusse I should not have brought in politics

If Comic Sans is a success at wrong places, the best thing to do is to try to change it

Substitute Comic Sans -> Word, and you find where most people here are :)

@tohecz I would love to remove Macs from various places in engineering community too. But I can't say that. That's what I mean. Buying a Mac with that cost is engineering wise a mistake. Does anyone care? Nope. That's what I meant.

@percusse ah yeah

I saw something along these lines on Twitter, it's an epic plan:

@PauloCereda lol

I'm afraid we're far from printing microprocessors, tho

@tohecz :)

@tohecz Still a few 10 million Euros.

@percusse yep :)

but somehow, I fell in love with the idea of 3D printing houses

Somebody wants to read a paper of mine! /gasp

@PauloCereda of course!

Is it on arXiv?

@tohecz Not yet, hopefully it will be. :)

@PauloCereda if you needed an endorses, I can do it as long as it falls in one of math.CO, math.DS, math.MG, math.NT

@tohecz Oh my!

@PauloCereda wha?

@tohecz hm? :)

@PauloCereda is anything wrong?

@tohecz nope. :)

endorses <3

@PauloCereda ok :) but you looked surprised

@PauloCereda it should have been "endorser" :)

@tohecz I'm flattered. :)

@PauloCereda you should not be

I have only 4 papers, and only 2 of them are really really my results

and one of these is actually a preprint

@tohecz Do you also point to the ArXiV version during the review process? I don't know the common practice in Math journals.

@percusse in what sense? I put the article on arXiv the day I send it for submission, but I don't tell the journal that it's on arXiv. Still, this information is on my webpage as well as in arXiv listings

I've actually seen Kannappan Sampath's article on arXiv thanks to the daily e-mail feeds

@tohecz Say you have a result and the proof is a little too long for the article. Do you link to your preprint or is it common to do so?

@percusse I don't think we know "proof is a little too long for the article". Articles of 40 pages are not so incommon in my field, so if you have a long proof, you simply submit the whole thing.

@tohecz So nobody complains afterwards when it is published then?

No page limit? Extra page cost bla bla

@percusse complains about what? no, I haven't seen that. Surely the mainstream journals don't have any such limitation, and these include RAIRO-ITA (Cambridge U.P.), Integers (independent online-only open-access journal), TCS (Springer), ...

There's a limit on conference papers, and the full proofs are not required there

@tohecz If you submit to IEEE you have a strict page limit, 17 pages double column for review and 12 pages two column for the camera-ready version. Otherwise you pay $175 for each.

Hence my question.

@percusse there is something like IEEE? /sarcasm

@tohecz I also wish there wasn't

Every review starts with the article is too long nonsense. As if people still reads articles.

@percusse seems you chose a bad field then :-/ (no pun intended). How long is a typical review you recieve on your article?

@tohecz Legally it should be 2-3 months but easily extends to 6 months if you don't ask to the editor. Then you have a super strict one month to react and then again an uncertain time... It's just stupid.

@percusse sorry, I meant the review as the text of the review ;) but I agree, this is stupid

btw, waiting half a year for a review is quite a standard here. It actually increases the popularity of conferences with quality-published proceedgings, because there you know that in 5 months after submission, the thing is published

@tohecz I think I'll keep on following Tim Govers about the boycott. :)

On another news, I'm quite surprised that we didn't get any Wankel Engine animation on Reuleaueiaiuieaueaeuiaueiuaeix triangle....

@percusse which boycott?

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