My experience with Microsoft was different. Back in the day, I installed IIS server ( MS official web server) and it wiped my system. I called customer support and they said that I needed to reinstall to fix it. I re-installed everything. Installed IIS and everything was wiped again. Customer Support said that they could not help and I should wait for the next patch.

Sounds like you didn't choose the paid support option.

When you pay them, they stay until it's fixed.

They stay until they exhaust all reasonable chances of fixing the issue, which is different.

There are limits to what tech support can fix, but getting to the point of "wipe it and start over" can be pretty quick.

He said he did this and it happened again.

Correct link to pwabuilder is https://www.pwabuilder.com/

Thanks. I'll fix that in the article.

Yeah, PWABuilder is amazing. A web page that analyzes your PWA, tells you any additional things you need to do to your PWA before submission, then generates packages for iOS, Google Play, and Windows Store. Awesome. More web devs need to know about this.

Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.

The speed of construction is due to prefab wood. Prefab concrete would be just as fast or faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvmru5JmXk

It has nothing to do with wood. Wood could be easier on the environment though.

Prefabrication requires a higher level of design maturity as opposed to traditional construction and from my anecdotal experience this can provide a significant increase in speed itself.

I did a quick search to determine if cities built from wooden structures can act as carbon sinks and I came across this great overview of the carbon footprint of wood buildings[0]. Granted it was created by a special interest group.

0- PDF http://www.awc.org/pdf/education/gb/ReThinkMag-GB500A-Evalua...

I would pay double if the app produced was a progressive web app.

If you are commuting on Caltrain in SF, it is way easier to take the citibikes. Only a relatively short distance in SOMA and way faster. When I went south to the tech campuses, I brought my own bike on the train.

There are a few bikers that cause problems. I was driving in Palo Alto yesterday and a cyclist insisted on using the car lane instead of a perfectly good bike lane.

Any chance that you will support wildcard domain names?

In US HS, the grades are going up but the world rankings are dropping. Our kids are not being prepared to be competitive.

https://qz.com/1032183/no-wonder-young-americans-feel-so-imp...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/17/easy-a-nearly...

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/highschool-08.html FYI - It may not look like much on the graph but the US is 2 years behind the top rankers.

I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population.

I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list.

USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined.

Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

>Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

Which runs largely on olim hadashim (new immigrants) from Western countries and the former Soviet Union.

I was CTO at 2 startups during the first Internet boom. I was getting resumes from janitors that were offering to be trained.

I had to hire most of the teams from Canada.

As a Canadian, that's kind of depressing.

My story about United was when I was flying from Vancouver to SFO. For some reason, we could not land at SFO so we ended up in Oakland. I said fine. Let me off and I will catch a cab.

They said that the plane was too big for Oakland. We sat on the runway for 2 hours then flew back to Vancouver with nothing put warm coke. By the time we got to Vancouver, it was late so so all airport and hotel food was closed. We had vouchers but nothing available to spend it on.

Of course they lied about the plane being too large, another airline flew the same plane to Oakland regularly. i had to spam fax their customer support line to get vouchers.

WTF. That's unbelievably moronic. Are there competent people in United?

This was my same thought. I can't help but draw comparisons to Atlas Shrugged in this whole united incident.