Maybe I'm just broken, but why can't I wear my earned hat? Last year all I had to do was click it in the Winterbash popup and I could put it on. Now there's nothing to "wear hat" for me :o
Thanks. Mine has it there now (after earning a second hat). Not sure why it wasn't there before, I'd even restarted my browser just to try something :D
Valid Spells for Waving Hands
(I'm sure there's a catchier title for this)
code-golfstringsgame
The game Waving Hands is somewhere between a pen-and-paper Magic: the Gathering and a very elaborate Rock Paper Scissors. Each turn you write down one of eight gestures for each hand:
wiggled Fing...
lol yeah... actually I originally deleted it thinking it would remain deleted (it was some 0 score answer on a downvoted question)... but then I figured they're not gonna take the hat away again :D
@Sp3000 btw, the call for themes for the weekly challenge challenge is up
Squarefinder
Imagine a bunch of rectangles drawn in the plane, each rectangle with its vertices at integer coordinates and its sides parallel to the axes:
The rectangles partition the plane into a number of disjoint regions, coloured red and blue below:
Your goal is to find the number of s...
@Optimizer not sure how much it adds over the answer score prediction challenge
and you need to factor in date of posting, because later answers will obviously have it easier
also, you'll probably want people to use some data from the SE API, but at the same time you don't want them to post an answer that converges to the correct answer as the 5th draws nearer
tbh I'm surprised it got more upvotes than the question, but judging from the fact that your comment got more upvoted than the second highest answer...
The challenge
The goal of this challenge is to create a chatbot that can run in the chatrooms of Stack Exchange. Your bot needs to be able to detect when specific commands are posted by a user and respond to it. This is the list of commands, and what your bot should do:
!!newest: output the ti...
@ProgramFOX Why this rule? "To see whether a new message is posted, you must use WebSockets."
When our customer says stuff like that, we reject the requirement with a reason of "This is an implementation detail that should be left up to us." (in more polite words)
@MartinBüttner so , that question. (1) I want to allow questions to query only 2 days worth of information. 1 is the date of posting of question (which can be taken in from a file) and the other will be 25th December.
@ProgramFOX I thought we were using code-golf as a scoring mechanism. Are you saying that you want to use "everyone does the same thing" as a scoring mechanism?
Anyway, I think implementation details are best left to the competitors, and since there are no answers as of yet (and it's still day 1 on the bounty), you might consider loosening the restrictions.
Fetching the desired output from an external source
This includes doing an HTTP request to fetch the page with the question and extracting a solution from that page. This was mildly amusing back in 2011, but now is derivative and uninteresting.
@MartinBüttner You'd think that, but the blower isn't working, so none of the heat is getting to the rest of the building anyway. Just burning insulation it appears.
The fire department has been searching for a while now. They're confident it's burning something, but they can't find it.
I also never noticed that both frosting and icing exist for basically the same thing (which isn't even cold)... although I did know both of the terms, but I always heard/read them with enough of a break in between, not to notice that it wasn't always the same word :D
It's a JavaScript script that runs automatically when you go to a page, if you installed it. You can install userscripts using the Greasemonkey add-on (in Firefox) or using the Tampermonkey add-on (in Chrome).
That might work too. But a userscript is made for automatically running things. And you'll probably have to run the bookmark manually before it starts.
> Unless the requirement mentions a specific timezone, hats that are date-based are often awarded for 12 hours before and 13 hours after the specified date in UTC, to accomodate people everywhere in the world. This means you can earn such a hat even though for you it's not even that day yet.
Leeway on date-based hats
Unless the requirement mentions a specific timezone, hats that are date-based are often awarded for 12 hours before and 13 hours after the specified date in UTC, to accomodate people everywhere in the world. This means you can earn such a hat even though for you it's no...
Valid Spells for Waving Hands
(I'm sure there's a catchier title for this)
code-golfstringsgame
The game Waving Hands is somewhere between a pen-and-paper Magic: the Gathering and a very elaborate Rock Paper Scissors. Each turn you write down one of eight gestures for each hand:
wiggled Fing...
Squarefinder
Imagine a bunch of rectangles drawn in the plane, each rectangle with its vertices at integer coordinates and its sides parallel to the axes:
The rectangles partition the plane into a number of disjoint regions, coloured red and blue below:
Your goal is to find the number of s...
Saw someone with a waffle hat. No idea how he got it though. Will report back if I discover something.
The challenge
The goal of this challenge is to create a chatbot that can run in the chatrooms of Stack Exchange. Your bot needs to be able to detect when specific commands are posted by a user and respond to it. This is the list of commands, and what your bot should do:
!!newest: output the ti...
Fetching the desired output from an external source
This includes doing an HTTP request to fetch the page with the question and extracting a solution from that page. This was mildly amusing back in 2011, but now is derivative and uninteresting.
