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The Universe of Discourse : Moonpig: a billing system that doesn’t suck
cartesiandaemon linked to this old blog post about designing a billing system. I’ve never designed a billing system, but it was interesting anyway.
(tags: software billing moonpig object-orientation database accounting pobox.com design perl)
Armando Iannucci: It’s time for a very British revolution
“I call it Rump Politics, because it is so clearly marked by an admission that it is for the few.” “In the last election, the three main parties succeeded so magnificently in drawing a curtain of silence around their future plans for government, that the dominating policies of the past five years have all been ones that simply were not discussed in the election campaign or mentioned in the party manifestos. These policies were: £9,000 university tuition fees, the bedroom tax, the total reorganisation of the NHS and 40 per cent cuts in local government. Put together, it’s a stark programme. Not an iota of it was mentioned during the 2010 campaign. This time round, both the main TV debates were conducted before the parties published their manifestos. No wonder they felt like talks about nothing. Is it any wonder that people feel disconnected from Westminster?”
(tags: politics election rump labour conservatives armando-iannucci)

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