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Is the SMS free? If not, who pays for it?
In the US, the recipient pays for texts.
So we can drain your account sending you texts, how mad is that.
How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
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Nice story, and great that Twilio worked out for you - but this really is the sort of thing that email alerts (or IM alerts, or IRC alerts) should also work fine for. I would argue that the fact that you find SMS/phone calls a more urgent alert is a fault with your phone/communication setup - and twilio is an interesting hack around that. But there really should be an easy way to make just as much ruckus from a simpl…
If you treat emails with the same urgency you give phone calls, I would argue there's a fault in your phone/communication set up. For most people I know, email can wait an hour or two, or even overnight. Phone calls require you to choose to ignore them.
Maybe in your world that works.
Until the FCC develops redevelops any sort of interest in dealing with scammers, my phone is basically useless for most of the world to speak to me.
If you're trying to reach me and are not on my list of approved callers, you can email me, or decide you didn't actually want to talk to me. (No, I don't use FB Messenger or related spyware, either.)
On the other hand, I apparently pay much more attention to email than you - I generally respond within about five minutes, assuming there's some reason.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice story, and great that Twilio worked out for you - but this really is the sort of thing that email alerts (or IM alerts, or IRC alerts) should also work fine for. I would argue that the fact that you find SMS/phone calls a more urgent alert is a fault with your phone/communication setup - and twilio is an interesting hack around that. But there really should be an easy way to make just as much ruckus from a simpl…
Yeah, this isn't really a major Twilio win or a hack - it's a basic scraping technique. I found a house for myself and a friend in a similar way, reverse engineer mobile app from MLS, scrape all listings once a day to get new stuff as it hits the market and you can now be far more selective than the crappy search on the MLS site allows.
Which MLS mobile app are you referring to?
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#124I was in the US and want to immigrate to Canada because of US broken H1B immigration system ( for me it will take 9 years to get a greencard). Here is what I did - The immigration website of Saskatchewan province opens up randomly to apply for immigration. I missed it many times because there is no indication other than the "Apply" button being enabled and a small text in their homepage which says "Applications are n…
I got tickets to a certain-to-sell-out concert doing the same thing. My friends were shocked I got them A-class seats. I'm teaching their kids to know that they will have more control over their world than they might imagine.
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If you want to get that piece of paper that some companies require...
At my school, they would waive requirements if you take a higher level course in the same track. For example, if I just took CS102 that requires CS101, I wouldn't have to go back to satisfy the CS101 requirement. Obviously everywhere is different.
How... are you taking CS102 that requires CS101... without taking CS101? Are the requirements not actually required?
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#126There exists something like this for Rutgers University. Anyone can submit a course to be tracked along with email, and once a course pops up as open, an email is sent. Text messages are not used since they are not free and this project is maintained by students, not university. But it can be easily modified and self-hosted since the source is on Github:
https://github.com/v/sniper
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#127for sending yourself updates when a bug is encountered or a condition is met, isn't it better to use something like PushBullet instead of normal text messages?
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> because of US broken immigration system Immigration is working just fine: It is a rate-limiting mechanism to prevent massive immigration of every "me too" person from other random countries. You're just like everyone else, and everyone else wants to get in, too. Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink. Buy a parka and enjoy Canada!
"Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink." Actually, the consensus among economists is that immigration makes your own economy better off. It has a net positive effect on productivity and prosperity. In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less.
> makes your own economy better off
just because the overall economy is better off (often measured in GDP) doesn't mean it is better off for all existing residents (e.g. GDP/capita).. even from a pure free-market perspective, distribution of wealth is not so market driven especially in the short term and when massive distortions deliberately exist in the marketplace (regulation, patents, near-monopolies, barriers, etc.)
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#130https://github.com/ChrisCinelli/scraperNotifier - This can check if regex exist or do not exist. It send an email or a message on Slack using a hook.
I used successfully with Eventbrite for hackthons sign up.