Posts by srgvd

Sexism isn't getting better in Silicon Valley, it's getting worse

Re: Meanwhile, in the real world

> Education, at least in terms of the three R's and in the west, is not sexist - boys get taught the same as girls.

Except the teachers are 80% female, who tend to grade pupil based on effort, attendance and calm behaviour. And the subjects are skewed from maths and natural science toward - I don't know, some generic humanitarian gibberish? And any form of competition, between peers being considered a bad thing.

Other than that, boys and girls are treated equally, and expected to act the same - as good girls they are.

Yelp-for-people app Peeple is back – so we rated Julia, its cofounder

Luluvise/OnLulu was slandering men for half a decade, and (almost) nobody bated an eyelid. But now it 'peeeple', not just 'men', so this is not ok.

Mozilla tells Persona single sign-on to singularly sign off

Shame, but makes sense

I actually use this thing for my (personal - in a sense that it used by me and the other guy) project. It is good, and so easy to integrate.

Virgin Media hikes broadband, phone prices by five per cent

> By the time you include line rental, it's very hard to beat the virgin media "Broadband only" option (the price rise for this was back in september/october) in terms of price and performance.

Yep. Price cartels are notoriously hard to beat on prices.

Arrived to UK two years ago from Russia for a work contract. Got a most basic offer from VM: £20pm for 30Mbps. It's £28pm for the same CIR already, and it goes to £32pm next quarter. 60% increase over two years. 'To keep up with competition'.

Meanwhile I was paying £8pm for 20Mbps back in Moscow. It's £4.99 for 150Mbps now. Day-long service deteriorations - all too common with Virgin - are unimaginable (because competition is fierce). Also in-term hikes are outlawed, and you can terminate at any time you want on one month notice (so, no termed contract).

Apparently, Russian telecom regulators care more about consumers than British do.