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Link to article on The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/08/stay-true-to-yourself-fly-closer-sun-what-ive-learned-from-50-years-of-rejection

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HIDEOUS DIVINITY Cancels US Tour Over Visas & Fees

https://metalinjection.net/news/hideous-divinity-cancels-us-tour-over-visas-fees

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I am still reeling from the HotOS rejections so I decided to do some stats analysis of my submissions over the entire duration of my career (grouped by conference ofc):

Here is the format:

Conference: (#submissions)-(# acceptances)-(# revisions)-(#rejections)

SOSP: 2-1-0-1
NSDI: 3-1-1-1
OSDI: 0-0-0-0
SoCC: 4-1-0-3
GRADES/NDA: 1-1-0-0
VLDB: 1-0-0-1
HotOS: 3-0-0-3
HotCarbon: 1-1-0-0
HotCloud: 1-0-0-1
AIOps: 2-2-0-0
QuantumOS:1-0-0-1
Computing Surveys: 1-0-0-1
JSys: 1-0-0-1
PDMCS: 1-0-0-1 (Not enough submissions so paper returned/rejected)

Total: 22-7-1-14

>60% rejection rate in the last 6 years! I wonder how far this will fall in the coming years....

#days out of work: 89
#job applications: 56
#rejections: 50

Sigh. I hate this part.

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