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A watched kettle never boils.

• chasingsparks 18y ago
  While a watched kettle never seems to boil, my ruby script that scanned for a pg comment did signal.
  • hooande 18y ago
    You gotta share that script or give it a web address
    • chasingsparks 18y ago
      hooande http://pastie.caboo.se/178157 http://pastie.caboo.se/178157 just replace the to and from number and excuse the lack of any error correcting. go out, get a beer, and wait.
      • chasingsparks 18y ago
        oh, i guess i should mention. it sends a SMS to a sprint phone via Sprint's www interface. i do not know (nor do i care) if it works for other cell phones. you can see if it does by setting the starting_count variable to 0.
      • pgfake 18y ago
        So if I make a user called "pgfake" can I make your script send you text messages? Neat.
        • chasingsparks 18y ago
          Well, actually, if you wanted to generate a false positive, all you had to do was paste the regex text, but why?
      • nostrademons 18y ago
        You know that you can scan for his replies on any thread by using the http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments link, right? Just in case someone starts another "YC e-mails are out!" thread?
        • chasingsparks 18y ago
          I did not know about that feature. Thanks.
  • rrival 18y ago
    I have one of those new fast ones. I watched. It boils.
• Readmore 18y ago
  It's so true. Apparently 'a refreshed inbox never changes' also holds true.
  • ericb 18y ago
    At least everything works asynchronously now. Waiting for a phone call used to be excruciating, before voicemail. Thankfully, we don't have to worry about someone "tying up the email" while we wait.
• nanexcool 18y ago
  about that... http://xkcd.com/357/ http://xkcd.com/357/
• deleted 18y ago
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