[paul_reiners]

A watched kettle never boils.

[Readmore]

It's so true. Apparently 'a refreshed inbox never changes' also holds true.

[ericb]

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.

[chasingsparks]

While a watched kettle never seems to boil, my ruby script that scanned for a pg comment did signal.

[rrival]

I have one of those new fast ones. I watched. It boils.

[hooande]

You gotta share that script or give it a web address

[chasingsparks]

hooande

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.

[nostrademons]

You know that you can scan for his replies on any thread by using the http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments link, right? Just in case someone starts another "YC e-mails are out!" thread?

[chasingsparks]

I did not know about that feature. Thanks.

[chasingsparks]

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]

So if I make a user called "pgfake" can I make your script send you text messages? Neat.

[chasingsparks]

Well, actually, if you wanted to generate a false positive, all you had to do was paste the regex text, but why?

[nanexcool]

about that... http://xkcd.com/357/