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Incredibly busy finishing the school thing. Posting will be this light until the 11’th or so. ( Still fleshing out the podcast idea on the back end. ) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

22. April 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Emergent Guidance

Jeff Vail spends hundreds of words getting at how to guide emergent thinking. In essence he argues for: Platforms to ‘Keystone’ ecosystems. Engineering by principle rather than by design (Consult Wiggins’ latest post on complexity.) Local systems as critical. Sounds … Continue reading →

17. April 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Piggybacking On Existing Infrastructure

Strikes me as a bad idea . The implication is that you’re trying to shave off just a few cents to beat your competitors (they’re using the same infrastructure). In terms of resiliency, it’s a bad move, redundancy is critical … Continue reading →

16. April 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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WordPress 2.5 = Snazzy

So far: no bugs and a sexy backend to boot. Finally as nice as it should be. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

10. April 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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Kraken

DarkReading has the details: At 400,000 bots Kraken is twice the size of Storm. Found at 50 of the Fortune 500. Undetectable in 80% of infected machines. Regularly updates its binary. Kraken’s bots and command and control servers communicate via … Continue reading →

08. April 2008 by Shlok Vaidya
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