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Derpy

12:00 PM

go, my loyal subject, show your love for the chicken! Upvote the post.

Mithrandir

yes your majesty

Derpy

If anyone discovers something more, let me know

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Winter Bash 2018

Juan M on December 12, 2018

The world is full of interesting yearly traditions. Take for example the tomato and orange throwing events, the buffet for monkeys, and the cheese rolling festivities. With such examples of human creativity, we at Stack Overflow could not pass on this opportunity. We have created and maintained our own yearly tradition – Winter Bash!

This year we are attempting to knit our users together in our love for hats for the 7th year in a row. And this year, we’ve even added a way for you to get creative without wasting any real yarn. Starting now (December 12, 2018) and going through …

Shadow Wizard

@EKons umm... well, it's the same as it was last year. And the year before that. And the year before that.

What did you expect?

But the knitting is worth it all. :D

EKons

maybe I'm a bit tired, but I feel like I hate hats (not to the point I'll disable them, but... I don't know if I'll ever wear one this year)

and myself

12:11 PM

@Derpy hmm, it's.. related to a music?

EKons

about knitting... well, if I tell you, you'll steal my idea! :P

and myself

Knitt Stories.

Bart

@Derpy dammit, there goes my afternoon :D

Shadow Wizard

Guess how node.js handles circular reference error?

Tinkeringbell

circular? :P

Derpy

12:21 PM

@andmyself you followed the track I was talking about in that post?

Bart

I wonder how literal we need to take that clue @Derpy

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

OK OK, I've got ten minutes of typing things here

Problem is I don't have anything in my mind to type

Shadow Wizard

@Tinkeringbell foo.js has reference to bar.js and bar.js has reference to foo.js

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Other than why does plant reproduction have to be so effing complicated?

Shadow Wizard

In C# this would give clear error message when trying to compile.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ think about hats

Tinkeringbell

12:25 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Because they can't go to a bar and get a date/one night stand? :P

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

What about them?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ because you're not a plant?

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ are they pointy?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Hats require too much dedication to the site

I can't offer that at the moment

Although I have a potentially interesting question for Chem

Don't even get time for leisurely learning things

Bart

@ShadowWizard does that even work?

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ You can get a hat simply by visiting a page

@Bart yes. No error.

(well.. no direct error)

code in foo.js works as usual.

Derpy

12:28 PM

@Bart You read the post? You saw the screenshot about what happened last year? Did you try to do the same? :P

Shadow Wizard

but turns out foo.js becomes inaccessible and anyone calling it (not only foo.js) fails with errors about it being null. @Bart

Bart

@Derpy I am at the post-deer part.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy BTW nice blank squares in there. ;)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

K, 10 minutes up. You can keep on with the foos and functions

Bart

@ShadowWizard ugh

Shadow Wizard

12:31 PM

not even the unicode codes like @forest got. lol

Derpy

@ShadowWizard I think you will have an hard time to reach the video then.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy unicode video? That's a new one.

:P

and myself

@Derpy yeah, and the title of the video seems a parody of a song. But might be misdirection

Derpy

@andmyself it is a meme it seems. A video that became viral last October. I don't know if the joke ends there or there is something more to it

balpha didn't reply yet

Bart

@Derpy that's why I'm wondering about the "literal" aspect. I can see 2 of those somewhere ... is there a time when ...

and myself

12:35 PM

🥚🦄

Nah... Not this....

Derpy

@Bart ?

Bart

The title of the video.

But I may be reading too much into (t)hat

Shadow Wizard

hehe nice one!

Elon Musks Secret Invention!

►

Derpy

> In The Deer 2nite is the title of a viral video of a deer walking into a child's play set as the Phil Collins song "In the Air Tonight."

and myself

Yeah, I'm stuck there

Unless "Love" is "In the air tonight"

(haven't tried, and on mobile)

Tinkeringbell

12:45 PM

@andmyself Achoo! May well be, I'm already sneezing :P

Derpy

@andmyself love doesn't work.

Tinkeringbell

Luck?

Derpy

luck in the air tonight?

Tinkeringbell

I don't know :P

Perhaps that's too Dutch :P

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell oh, well, I fear the easter egg stops at the vide. That said, it would be nice if I were proven wrong..

Tinkeringbell

12:55 PM

@Derpy Sounds almost like that would be too easy?

Have you tried stuff that can be in the air? bird, moon, star... drums, phil collins? :P

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell sound like the opposite would be too much work?

@Tinkeringbell PARROTS!

Tinkeringbell

@Derpy Nah, parrots are naturally lazy and this one is afraid of heights anyway :P

and myself

I guess someone has to knit something... I dunno, deer on a slides?

Derpy

@andmyself how would the site recognize that?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Derpy balpha's clones are tirelessly staring at numerous screens

Derpy

1:10 PM

🐔🐄🐖🐧🐕🐢🐈🐊🦌

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

All of them are cute, even the last rectangle guy

I assume it's Baymax's emoji?

Magisch

@Tinkeringbell how'd you migrate then?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Magisch Fuel efficient German car

and myself

Old MacDonald had a farm... Even a penguin farm...

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ deer emoji

Derpy

1:12 PM

four C, two P, two D, one T

if there was one more animal I could have a sequence there.

Should ask on puzzles

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

T-Rex

Shadow Wizard

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ 🦖

and myself

CCPPDTCCD

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

A T-Rex emoji would be a puddle of water that gets disturbed in a monotonous manner

and myself

What about Rene emoji?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

1:15 PM

@andmyself A screenshot of a meta rant about close votes

Shadow Wizard

Santa! 🎅

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@andmyself That's part of the unicorn genome that

. . . is responsible for the horns

Where is my Nobel prize?

and myself

🏆

Tinkeringbell

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ You can get a no-bell prize. Just leave the room :P

rene

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ :/

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

1:17 PM

Further research may reveal the secret to their frictionless flight

@rene I'm not saying it would make sense.

Also there's more truth to the sweet feces than you might think

Undigested cellulose

Derpy

anyway....

@TimPost So I guess I was right?

Dec 7 at 15:06, by Derpy

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

BBL lunch over

Tim Post

@Derpy Yup!

Stijn

Open a random post on SO/MSO and click the 'edit tags' link. That full width 'loading' indicator is new, right? Almost seems like a bug. Or perhaps I've never seen it before and only noticed it now due to the site load by winterbash?

Derpy

hehe, now I just need to find out more about this deer thing.

Bart

1:26 PM

@Stijn not getting that?

Magisch

Hey tim, if you submit a ticket or task in your internal bug tracker, is it considered a POST request?

Mithrandir

You really like that pun. You've just got to work on your TIMing.

rene

@Stijn yes, it very much is ... and eeeewwww a bit?

Stijn

Bart

@Stijn ewww ... I don't get that.

Tinkeringbell

1:29 PM

@Mithrandir Can we just stop those? It's getting preposterous.

Shadow Wizard

@Bart your connection is too fast. ;)

Mithrandir

I'm trying to figure out if you're making a pun or sincerely annoyed...

Oh.

*facepalms*

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn it's on all sites. Appear to be new sort of "loader" gif, e.g. when submitting a comment, we have the three dots gif.

It's useful to show "OK, we are doing something, hold on".

Stijn

hmm maybe the dots are stretched out then

Shadow Wizard

no no that appears to be whole new gif

(I think... hmm...)

It's placed when AJAX takes place, until the server is sending the response.

rene

1:34 PM

@Bart here is gif: i.sstatic.net/ALoGW.gif /cc @Stijn

Bart

@ShadowWizard I guess so. Which is surprising since we only have overloaded 4G in the office :D

Stijn

I desperately need to learn how to make those gifs. Thanks @rene :)

Shadow Wizard

@Stijn recordit.co

(dunno if that's what @rene is using too.)

rene

@Stijn screentogif.com (comes with code on github)

Derpy

So, I heard that the top 100 submissions in the knitting contest get an ~~hand~~ wing made scarf, courtesy of @Tinkeringbell, right?

Tinkeringbell

1:39 PM

Is there a contest? :P

Where???

Ankit Sharma

@Derpy wow but I lost it with 0 votes already :D

Bart

@AnkitSharma cough downvote the competition cough

Ankit Sharma

LOL

Shadow Wizard

33

Q: Winter Bash 2018 Knitting

This year's Winter Bash got us great hat challenges but also a very nice tool for knitting on the main site. Is there a challenge related to this knitting tool? Here is my knitting and it would be amazing if you could share yours too.

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowWizard That's not a contest :P

(yet? :P)

Shadow Wizard

1:42 PM

It is, just not official. :)

Ankit Sharma

@Bart On serious note I don't do that until the other answer is too crappy or unhealthy

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell start making those scarfs, you have 100 to craft :P

Tinkeringbell

@Derpy You know, if people demand stuff, I'm less likely to ever make it for them :P

EKons

yeah me too

unless they are nice

Tinkeringbell

@EKons nice people generally don't demand stuff, unless you're seriously crossing their boundaries ;)

EKons

1:47 PM

well...

if somebody gives me money and demands me to do something for him but in a nice way, I'll either do it or give the money back kindly :P

Derpy

@Tinkeringbell you know, joke?

Tinkeringbell

@Derpy Oh sure. We just turned it into a more serious conversation.

No offense taken ;)

@EKons Yeah but then it's again a kind of 'crossing a boundary' thing: If someone pays you for something and you don't hold your end of the deal ;)

That's okay, I don't mind to be demanding myself then ;)

Derpy

BTW, seems that Sun Wukong has the same, horrid, trigger again

David too

if people demand I do something, they get laughed at

EKons

> stranger: I DEMAND you to PAY me 100,000€!!!
> me: Good luck with those manners!

Magisch

1:51 PM

hand crocheted scarf sounds nice

Tinkeringbell

@Davidtoo I'm not one to openly laugh at people, unless we're genuinely having fun. But yeah, my mind does that too :P

@Magisch Depends. I have on that I really treasure :)

David too

@EKons "Sure, my fee for paying you $100,000 is $110,000"

Tinkeringbell

I've also made some that in the end were too itchy or small or holey

Magisch

even offering to buy one without prompt is kinda rude tbh

a friend of mine makes candles with own beeswax

I wouldn't just go "you should sell me one of those"

EKons

> ... HEY I WILL BUY THAT FOR 20!

Tinkeringbell

1:54 PM

@Magisch It's generally nicer to ask people if they sell something first, yeah ;)

Bart

@Tinkeringbell I bought a nice knitted scarf years ago because it looked good. Only to realize that I'm a human furnace and never wear scarfs nor gloves because I get too hot anyway.

Tinkeringbell

@EKons boredpanda.com/customer-complaint-blanket-price-krafty-katt/…

@Bart So you need an ice-cube necklace? :P

Magisch

I mean, a lot of people exercise their craft hobby to relax

Bart

@Tinkeringbell oh man, if you could get me one of those for the summer, that would be great.

David too

@Tinkeringbell unmeltable ice cubes would be great... also you'd be rich if you invented those

EKons

1:56 PM

@Bart really wanna put ice cubes on yourself? lol

Tinkeringbell

@Bart They were quite a hype for menopausing women on one of my crochet groups last year :P

@Davidtoo There's those little plastic ones that you can put in the freezer... more like icepacks?

Bart

@Tinkeringbell :D if you see certain glasses on that group in the near future, I may have joined.

Tinkeringbell

They do melt, but they are reusable ;)

EKons

unmeltable ice cubes aren't as good as they sound initially

they would still heat up, no?

Derpy

ok, any 10k SO user?

can anyone see the question this user should have deleted recently?

stackoverflow.com/users/10368417/…

David too

1:59 PM

@Tinkeringbell got some of those, aye

EKons

10k SE user yes, 10k SO user no... ;-)

David too

@EKons this is why they haven't been invented... kinda violates some fundamental principles of thermodynamics

Derpy

the deleted question may have something to do with the Duck hat

Bart

I don't think we can see that? Other than the peer pressure badge ...

Derpy

@Bart no way a 10k can track down the deleted post?

EKons

2:01 PM

nope

only mods can

this is on purpose

let's not stalk users...

Tinkeringbell

@Derpy Only if they hold a link to it ;)

EKons

yeah, ew

very immoral, imho

Journeyman Geek

under 200 rep SO user ;p

Derpy

@EKons I wanted to see if the deleted post holds any hint to the trigger for the duck hat

I believe that must either have something to do with self-answers or more probably with answering an already answered question.

EKons

no spoilers please :P

Derpy

2:18 PM

and now I realize that by stalking this page, one can actually know on which day any user casted a downvote.

EKons

um... sure ;P

that's exactly what "Month 2, Week 2, Day 2" means...

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy even get rough time estimation, yup. What about it?

There was a user Pierre something who claimed to have a way to know for sure who downvoted his posts. He never gave proof though.

Derpy

@ShadowWizard nothing, other than on some sites crossreferencing that info with the time you were downvoted at....

would basically do what Pierre claimed.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy yup, likely that what Pierre was doing.

Still... can't see a way to block this.

EKons

so... Pierre was really confident, right?

Shadow Wizard

2:23 PM

Besides just remove those counters.

Another way is to monitor reputation of possible "suspects".

Derpy

Frodo answer at 51 now. Must keep it in hnq list.

Shadow Wizard

(works for answer downvotes only)

@EKons that's right.

@Derpy Bilbo is jealous!

hmm... am I the only one with Waffles on MSE?

checking

EKons

@ShadowWizard and that's what he really focused at instead of the "why", eh?

Shadow Wizard

Appears that way... must be related to closing and deleting. Since neither of the mods got it, I'd say... [censored]

@EKons of course

EKons

@ShadowWizard ew...

@ShadowWizard somebody needs to learn a bit of common sense 101... ;-)

(btw, I can see you over there :P)

Journeyman Geek

2:30 PM

maybe your own posts lol

cause we close and delete a lot

Derpy

BTW, I was very lucky with the hats they chose to reuse.

Had they reused the Cosmic Brain one, my Smith joke would have been destroyed.

EKons

maybe use this Meta.SE to make bogus sandbox posts and ...whoops, said too much! :P

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek nah I didn't close or delete any of my own posts today

(I think)

EKons

like you often do the former... ;-)

Ankit Sharma

2:48 PM

@Derpy yeah weird to get

Maybe on sci-fi I get it

Shadow Wizard

@ShadowWizard There ... might be something in the works. I can not confirm nor deny any things for any things. But there might be things, or other things. But the thing is, the things are the way they are because of other things, so we'll just have to thing positively and see. — Tim Post ♦ 3 mins ago

Thingy

Journeyman Geek

0_0

Shadow Wizard

One thing is for sure... Winter Bash is not half baked. ;-)

Journeyman Geek

sometimes there's pearls. Or Perls.

Ankit Sharma

ahem ahem

Shadow Wizard

2:53 PM

@EKons maybe the hat is given for ranting a lot in chat?? :D

Ankit Sharma

@ShadowWizard then should I start bitching about new design :p

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I'd have that hat then

Feeds

June 21st, 365, the date of the big Mediterranean earthquake and tsunami, lived in infamy for a few centuries before fading. Maybe the trick is a catchy rhyme; the '5th of November' thing is still going strong over 400 years later.

EKons

@ShadowWizard RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT eh?

btw Chrome sucks

Journeyman Geek

._.

you could run another...

Ankit Sharma

2:56 PM

@EKons in what way

Journeyman Geek

actually literally there's no other 'real' choice but FF now

EKons

not responding all the time

FF sounds a bit ew-ish

Journeyman Geek

nearly every other browser is webkit or blink based

Ankit Sharma

Uff I need other colours in knitting

EKons

and in no way am I using IE or Edge

Journeyman Geek

2:58 PM

I use vivadi - which is blink based.

Opera? Blink based. Also kinda not really opera any more.

EKons

Opera is basically Chrome, no?

Journeyman Geek

I used to run this qtweb.net

@EKons yup

EKons

ah, that Qt Web browser sure looks outdated at a first glance

Journeyman Geek

vivaldi is basically the old opera team trying to make something spirtually similar, but they're using the blink engine

@EKons apparently its dead? ;p

EKons

I didn't ask for pings to get muted...

Journeyman Geek

3:01 PM

I can't think of any other browsers

EKons

because there are essentially none?

I have both Chrome and Firefox

Journeyman Geek

yup

Magisch

firefox is down to 4.1% market share

so it's basically just chrome and the crumbs now

EKons

yeah, and ~~Stalker~~ Chrome sucks a lot lately... :-(

Shadow Wizard

3:36 PM

@AnkitSharma lol

@JourneymanGeek but... you don't rant enough! :D

@EKons why?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard I rant fairly effectively though!

Shadow Wizard

@EKons something on your side is choking it... try to disable antivirus for example

Journeyman Geek

hm

speaking of rants..

Shadow Wizard

@JourneymanGeek so "useless rant" is the trigger.... ;)

@EKons no worry they ditching even Edge soon and moving to Chromium

Chrome Explorer

@JourneymanGeek yes?

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard oh looks like SE's kinda filling in the marketing side again

maybe we'll have better blog posts hides

(I did rant about that before)

Shadow Wizard

3:41 PM

lol

Names!

Journeyman Geek

oh was just looking at the work here page ;p

stackoverflow.com/company/work-here

as for the rant...

Derpy

and six hats was gotten

Journeyman Geek

Its a bit cringy lol

Derpy

this time, it was on purpose.

Journeyman Geek

38

Q: StackOverflow.Blog isn't that great

I've been here a while, and done a few rodeos and, the quality of blog posts feels like its hit rock bottom at times. I admit there's some great ones but considering Stack Overflow as a company is in a wee bit of a transition, it might be a good time to go "maybe you guys should revisit it". I d...

discussion blog

Shadow Wizard

3:47 PM

@Derpy the single "non trivial" hat I got is totally not on purpose. :/

@JourneymanGeek ohhh old rant

Journeyman Geek

yes

EKons

@ShadowWizard yeah, that new Chromium Edge thing, no thanks

Journeyman Geek

I do hope SE dosen't give me too much to rant about

and a few of the things are a bit...

awkward?

Shadow Wizard

@EKons who knows... maybe by giving up and not really trying they'll make something good. Or at least better than what they did so far. ;)

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard more that its a way to make a fairly clean break from IE

Shadow Wizard

3:54 PM

Edge should have been that break with different look and different name.

EKons

@ShadowWizard thinks, remembers history meh

not pessimistic here, but I've often seen the end result of Microsoft's "we'll make it better! :D"

Shadow Wizard

I just ate one of those:

This is tasty.

Yum yum yum

Derpy

@ShadowWizard Iolo, yep, that is related to today's calendar page.

Shadow Wizard

123 grams (really!) of pure pleasure. :D

Shog9

Yoco? Ohno...

Shadow Wizard

3:59 PM

lol

You Only Live Once!

waffles

Shog9

Looks like a c to me

EKons

pretty sure we all know what YOLO means... ;-)

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