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abhayv

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About abhayv

I am a technologist with deep experience in search, web applications, backend systems and large scale data handling. I worked for 3 years at Google in the core web search and am currently working in a stealth mode startup called BloomReach based in Mountain View.

I have a PhD and Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. I love to program and often explore and build things just for the fun of it. I like dabbling in various programming languages and like dynamic languages such as Lisp, Python and Ruby.

If you would like to see a more detailed profile, please visit my LinkedIn page at http://www.linkedin.com/in/abhayv

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    Meditation is best learned with a good teacher. I highly recommend Bhante Vimalaramsi at http://www.dhammasukha.net/ I recently did a 5 day retreat and it was life changing. He mak…

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    Blippy co-founder here. Yes, GIF is a really old format. We have to work a lot on optimizing for performance. Surprising that it is the only popular one that allowed any animation.…

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    ImageMagick has some good tools for manipulating GIFs. We have an iPhone app called Blippy which uses ImageMagick on the server side

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    Jekyll is pretty neat. I too recently switched from wordpress to Jekyll and haven't looked back. I have open sourced my blog at https://github.com/abhayv/abhayv.github.io

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    It is a beautiful answer by Feynman

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    See also http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-on-UI-UX-design...