Ye Olde Hat Shoppe

Andrew Li

00:00

the literal "c" threw me off

Now I just need an accept on my tumbleweed c:

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

nice

Andrew Li

I'm gonna be pretty sad if they don't get back on or don't accept

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lol

I got really lucky on that one, the OP's last post anywhere was 2013

on SO, not even the same site

the post itself was like 4 years old iirc

Andrew Li

Did you check their logon history? not just their post history

claps

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah

I don't even know how he saw my post

Andrew Li

00:04

dang

I hate it when you answer something, the come back on and ignore your answer

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

:/

Andrew Li

Sometimes they just get the info and leave

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

that hasn't happened to me cause the sites I'm on, but still :( for you

Andrew Li

Especially if I spend lots of time researching

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah, I've seen taht on story-id Qs on SFF

Andrew Li

00:07

The volume of questions on SO makes it hard to get a good question & good answer

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it's a really great answer, and the OP says "cool thanks that worked" and leaves the site forever

Andrew Li

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

<completeanduttersympathy>ok back to coding see y'all I'm out of here</completeanduttersympathy>

Andrew Li

bye

Wildcard

I've just earned the hat "6."

(Secret hat.)

No idea what for. I posted 6 comments within an hour; could that be related?

Andrew Li

00:14

It has to do with comments

A certain quantity and upvotes (IIRC)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

iirc upvotes no, that's blue in the face

yeah, I gave up on code

Wildcard

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Don't know, I don't have that one. I did give 6 votes in the last hour, one of which was a downvote.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oic okay

Andrew Li

I was talking about comment upvotes :P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yeah, so was I actually

Andrew Li

00:24

You can give comment downvotes? What?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

no

he was talking about normal votes

Andrew Li

ok

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

when I said "iirc upvotes no..." then I was talking about comment ones

@AndrewLi also very nice avatar 10/10 do a cat next

Andrew Li

I never understood why you have a dog on a cat.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

because it's fun and I'm running out of hats I haven't used yet >_>

what should I do next?

Andrew Li

00:26

Dunno

I need to get "this is fine" but have no way of doing so

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

changed to fiery

Andrew Li

wait for the huge chat delay

I also need to get fiery

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AndrewLi yeah, ik that

Andrew Li

arghhh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AndrewLi not too hard depending on the site

which site?

Andrew Li

00:28

SO

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oic

Andrew Li

The ones I take the most time to answer have +1 or 2.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

try ppcg!

Andrew Li

Because there's basically 0 traffic once you pass a certain threshold after question post time

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

we have no tumbleweeds but many votes to throw around

Andrew Li

00:29

I've done 1 answer there. I can't golf.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

:(

you'll learn

Andrew Li

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/105387/56456

Did it for the polymath

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it's not that bad tbf, it's mostly the challenge

Andrew Li

Ehh. I can't golf

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

:/ oh well

also you should learn something else other than JS, js is really really dumb

Andrew Li

00:38

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ how dare you

For golfing, yes

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

no it's awful in general

python is like JS v1.5

Alexander O'Mara

JS > Python

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

why/how

Alexander O'Mara

Unless I need to do a lot of large-number stuff, or communicate with native code a lot, I find myself reaching for JS more than Python.

Andrew Li

I dabble a bit in Java n' python

I dislike the stereotype of "js can only write stuff for webpages!!!!"

Alexander O'Mara

00:42

The build-in asynchronous nature of JavaScript makes a lot of stuff easier.

@AndrewLi It's really the new "write once, run anywhere".

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AndrewLi no, I think node is almost as bad as webpage JS

the only good reason I see for using it is the universality

MasterBob

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ agreed

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

run the memes are here

as fast as you can

MasterBob

AAHH

OH NO

Andrew Li

<JS> is number one, hey!

Alexander O'Mara

00:45

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That's a pretty good reason.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AlexanderO'Mara eh I still don't think it's good enough

ermahgerd I got stars

Andrew Li

I am a dead meme

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

but but recursion

oh ok

Andrew Li

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Guy kinda looks nice on you

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

thanks

it actually fits heisenberg (the cat in my pic, she's actually mine)

the running ragged one is nice but doesn't fit on the picture

MasterBob

00:49

nice

all i got is this

Andrew Li

I think I'll stick with Polymath for now

MasterBob

dont even have polymath

would be nice tho

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lol

Andrew Li

I need to try for "egoist"

MasterBob

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ everybody likes cats as their profile picture

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

00:50

it's nice when they're actually yours :P

Andrew Li

maybe on one of my PPCG challenges but I can't golf. Nor do I have common sense or logical thinking

MasterBob

yeah, my cats name is bumble

Andrew Li

I have no pets :c

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

D:

get a cat

> no common sense

HIGH FIVE BROTHER

Andrew Li

My sister is highly allergic

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

00:53

aw

MasterBob

thats sad

my sister is allergic too

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yes it is

MasterBob

like we care

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

nobody should be allergic to cats

MasterBob

theyre so cute

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

00:54

@MasterBob eh, it's always sad when somebody's allergic to really anything

I'm allergic to red food dye

MasterBob

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ agreed

wait wut

Andrew Li

What a tragedy

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@MasterBob yeah

it's actually quite irritating

red 40, can't have too much or else I start puking

MasterBob

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ wow, cant believe the horrors

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

very sad yes

ketchup is evil

Andrew Li

00:56

ingests red 40, starts puking up tons of red

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

lel

MasterBob

red puke wow

Andrew Li

blood

MasterBob

oh

ah

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it's more of just whatever I ate TBF :P

Hats Stack Exchange

02:26

0

Q: Can the Maverick hat be made a silver badge?

It seems that there are no badges similar to the criteria of the Maverick hat: answer +5 a -3 question that goes to +3 This badge would promote users to answer many underrated good questions. Would this make a good silver badge?

nitsua60

04:19

just got clockwork, no idea how. Here's my activity, should you care to look.

Threw three upvotes 14, 13, and 13 minutes ago. The two upvotes 13m ago were for two answers on the same question.

(no other activity in the last six hours--I'd been afk)

Andrew Li

04:37

You voted for the past 9 days?

Lloyd Dominic

09:14

Hi, guys!

Good afternoon to you, all!

> @David said: "edit 5 old/inactive posts"

@David Well, what hat is this?

Алексей Шиманский

@LloydDominic Elementary

Lloyd Dominic

@АлексейШиманский Oh, okay thanks!

Well, as of my case, I edited a question & an answer, but an another user has also edited it, but it doesn't seem to add a bit of information, or improve things.

Now, the question's / answer's editor is now showing the "other" user, rather than me ...

What can I do to this things?

> However, it also shows in the revisions, that I also edited it (and it was approved). The "other" user's edit was still not approved, but his edit is showing in the question page ...

Rolf ツ

Does any of you "Hatters" know an answer to this question? stackoverflow.com/questions/41460063/…

Lloyd Dominic

09:29

By the way, Hi @Rolfツ !

Rolf ツ

Hi @LloydDominic

Eran

Hi guys

Lloyd Dominic

@Rolfツ Oh, sorry! I am still not developing Android Apps already, but I know just a little bit of information about them. I only know how to use Android, but not build Android Apps ...

@Eran Hi!

Rolf ツ

Btw, I've tried to get the 8,243,721 hat. Unfortunately deleting 4 old comments isn't enough, although it has been suggested by some users.

1 up vote: Nov 3 '14 at 13:05
1 up vote: Nov 1 '14 at 8:59
1 up vote: Oct 31 '14 at 0:22
1 up vote: Feb 17 '15 at 17:16

Lloyd Dominic

@Rolfツ What's with that upvotes?

Eran

09:34

@Rolfツ Why not delete 8 old comments?

Lloyd Dominic

The "edit" thing (that I was saying, a while ago), is like this.

Rolf ツ

Don't have 8 comments suitable for deletion, it would mean I have to remove some valuable information from StackOverflow.

Unless I just replace them XD

@LloydDominic the up votes the comments had I removed

Rolf ツ

09:48

Does anyone know why I always see one hat less on the leaderboard than in my profile. At the moment 22 two vs 21. Are some hats not counted?

Eran

10:01

@Rolfツ Are you looking at the global leaderboard or at a site specific one?

Rolf ツ

Site specific (StackOverflow)

Aah I see

One of my hats is probably earned on another site.

Panda

10:35

I just got Fiery, it seems that self-answers are counted

Rolf ツ

Just got 8,243,721, deleted 5 comments 1+ years old and all with 1 up vote.

Eran

@Rolfツ Yes, it appears your Where in the World hat was only earned on Worldbuilding.

@Rolfツ Congrats

Rolf ツ

Yep, unfortunately

Eran

I'm 3 hats down from the top hatters. I'll never catch up, but maybe I can get one or two hats closer.

Bhargav Rao

10:54

Hi @eran \o

Your prediction from last year came true

Eran

Hi

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

12:12

anyone knows... what is total count of Hats in here...?

is it 41..?

Eran

There are 41 known hats (28 regular + 13 secret)

3

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

is there any possibility of introducing more Secret hats in couple of days...?

@Eran cool... @Eran, how did you get 8,243,721...?

Eran

@v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋ I deleted old upvoted comments

There's always a posibility of more hats, but not likely at this stage

I just noticed the Winterbash 2016 video (youtube.com/watch?v=CDi_nj1-G6U) displays all 41 hats at 1:46. That would have been a major spoiler if I've seen it before now (unless the video was replaced after the start of Winterbash).

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

12:29

@Eran okay, that helps! :)

@Eran, the comment added before Bash period will also be counted... right?

Eran

@v Actually you should delete old comments (i.e. posted long before Bash period). I'm not sure how old they should be.

@v try this query to find old comments - data.stackexchange.com/askubuntu/query/607992/…

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

13:01

@Eran I just deleted 5 such comments! but no Hat and query also doen't show any recent results. :(

Eran

@v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋ Did you switch to the relevant stack exchange site?

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

yup. I have seen the query previously as well... that time someone told me to add a comment on others post which is only edited by OP, and your comment gets upvoted. I tried the drill, but that also didn't reflect in this query result.

@Eran added correctly, "Stack Overflow"

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

13:39

"No Longer Grinchy". what if I delete my own question and reopen it again...?

Hats Stack Exchange

14:41

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Q: Does self-answers count towards the Fiery hat?

The description for Fiery is: post five answers that each get a score of at least 3 Does it include self-answers that get a score of at least 3?

support self-answer winterbash winterbash-2016

nitsua60

15:41

@AndrewLi Yes, but I had previously had a nine-day vote string which did not earn me the hat. (I made notes in the GDoc on the voting-matter.)

@Rolfツ If it's valuable, it shouldn't be in comments. Comments are transient and subject to deletion.

@v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋ "undelete" isn't the same action as "reopen," so I wouldn't expect it to work the same.

Caleb Kleveter

16:08

What is the best way to suggest hat/hat triggers for next year?

b_jonas

meta.stackexchange.com/a/288272/222298 says "I Am Your Father" is awarded for "ask, answer, or vote on the meta site. In case of a post, the post must have 0 or positive score." How does that at least 0 score work? A post starts with 0 score, and I don't think they take the hat away if the score of my post changes to negative.

What the heck?

I'm freaked out. How is this room a chatroom for Meta SE according to the "site rooms" button, but in the normal chat tier (not in the meta chat)?

DavidPostill

16:25

@b_jonas The room parent got changed as an experiment to get hats for starred posts. Unfortunately nobody realised it couldn't be reverted

Dec 31 '16 at 14:47, by David

you had me move it to the one place, where normal mod loose control. so in essence we are stuck on meta. (and can no longer test this chat hat idea)

Dec 31 '16 at 14:49, by David

but now the "host" field is gone, and we are stuck. hope you all like the new theme.

Dec 31 '16 at 14:49, by Bhargav Rao

Or in words of Shog, "Awww, Shit"

b_jonas

Hehe. Thanks for the info

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

mods can use their mod-power to change the room back?

DavidPostill

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ No.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oh, I thought they could

never mind then

DavidPostill

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ "normal mod loose control"

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

16:39

oh, I see

Himarm

17:05

hello boys and girls

im still missing 6

does anyone have a fairly surefire method to get it

the google doc is still vague

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

delete comments

Himarm

i did that for 374854284685

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I got it after deleting a bunch of comments on a post

just try making and nuking comments

Andrew Li

17:44

Good morning all

David

18:05

@LloydDominic Elementary.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AndrewLi morning

are you back home?

Andrew Li

Yeah

For a long time

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oh

Willeke

18:25

Delete an comment after the answer it is on has been edited, (and it might need more than one of those.)

That is for the 6

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

no, it's not that

I got it on a question, I almost never comment on answers

David

does not matter. any post works question or answer.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

I don't think the question was edited though

Andrew Li

18:51

Argh! Blender is being a pain in the arse

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

how?

Andrew Li

I've modified my texture but it won't apply the changes

Willeke

would a small kick in the right spot work? It used to with early computers? (See the stories about computer repairs for $30000.25. The 25 cents for the kick, the rest for knowing where and how to apply it.)

10 Replies

20:43

I have changed my hat pretty much every day for the past week, I don't have the trend setter hat...

Andrew Li

Weird

I switched many times during the day

Hats Stack Exchange

21:35

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Q: Suggestions for Winterbash 2017

Winterbash 2016 is not over yet (it started later than usual this year and will end later than usual), but after noticing that the corresponding versions of this question for Winterbash 2015 and Winterbash 2014 were posted on Jan 4 2016 and Jan 4 2015 respectively, I figured it would be fitting ...

discussion feature-request winterbash-2016 winterbash-2017

Andrew Li

22:26

I like the Shoppe better

X-27

As I was saying, AHHHHHHHHHH

Andrew Li

X-27

(for context, I missed the clockwork hat by 32 minutes - TWICE!!!)

Andrew Li

There will never be a closing tag, because it is eternal

X-27

voting history:

January Third, Timestamp 00:29:22

January First, Timestamp 21:28:21

No January Second.

Andrew Li

22:27

I almost lost my 230 day streak on SO because my cruise ship had no wifi

Was 5 minutes before I would've lost it

X-27

@AndrewLi that would have been awful!!!!!!

bluefeet

@AndrewLi I was at 1500+ consecutive days and I lost it in October. I was very sad

Andrew Li

D:

That's amazing

bluefeet

I was legitimately sad

Andrew Li

231/307 days

X-27

22:29

This is NOT NICE.

I have all the Secret Hats except for clockwork

Andrew Li

Still ranting about the votes?

X-27

@AndrewLi the lack thereof.

Andrew Li

what

a

tragedy

X-27

2 mins ago, by X-27

Andrew Li

I don't think we can say for sure that's all the hats

X-27

22:30

that is all of the hats.

I just said it for sure :)

Andrew Li

egoist is going to be iffy

X-27

unless I'm seeing things, I'm pretty sure I just said it.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

22:54

@AndrewLi I think we've discovered them all

Andrew Li

I guess so

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

if you look at the images in the WB "trailer", all are accounted for

Andrew Li

What do you mean?

All they mention is "2 dozen hats"

IIRC there are 41

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

1 sec

2

taken from the video

he has all the possible hats, including all the secret ones

that's how we knew the clockwork one was coming (though what for we had no clue)

Andrew Li

that's a horrible breach

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

23:00

Dec 25 '16 at 22:47, by Mego

So the only one that hasn't been seen is the derby hat

Andrew Li

Ahh

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@AndrewLi meh it was discovered pretty late

and it doesn't show us any hints about getting them

Andrew Li

Sure but it confirms the amount

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

true

MasterBob

23:35

anyway

how we doin'

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

meh

MasterBob

imposter

we are both cat vaders

But I am the real one!

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