@kyanny's blog

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TOEIC test

Today I had a TOEIC test. It was first time for me. Before the test, I thought that probably I will score about 600 points. After the test, my feeling was nearly same as I expected.

 
This is purpose for to know my true English skill. I felt that listening was a little  easy than I assumed. I couldn't finished last question because I ran out all of time. I learned that time management is important.
 
I'm going to try TOEIC in this year at least one more time to check the results of my usual English study.
 
Update at Feb 3: score: listening 320 reading 400 total 720.

12 Days of Gifts

I enjoyed Apple's "12 Days of Gifts" in this season. The last day gift is "Sweet Summer Sun, Live in Hyde Park 2013 (Live) - Single" by The Rolling Stones. While I didn't attend this event, I stayed in London at that day and I saw a poster of that live at Hyde Park! It's one of a good memory of trip to London.

Beast of Burden (Live)

Beast of Burden (Live)

  • ザ・ローリング・ストーンズ
  • Rock
  • ¥0
  • provided courtesy of iTunes

Tumbling Dice (Live)

Tumbling Dice (Live)

  • ザ・ローリング・ストーンズ
  • Rock
  • ¥0
  • provided courtesy of iTunes

Doom & Gloom (Live)

Doom & Gloom (Live)

  • ザ・ローリング・ストーンズ
  • Rock
  • ¥0
  • provided courtesy of iTunes

Haskell Koans

I found Haskell Koans on GitHub. It was really good practice for me. I did it, but I couldn't solve Parser Combinator practice. I guess I'm stuck at basic list operation stuff. I tried many times, but failed after all (I couldn't satisfy return type "Parser String"). If you know the answer, please let me know.

Update: I solved "sequence of digits parser" practice by P.many' P.anyChar but still struggle symbol parser.

Look Back 2013

Only a few minutes remains in this year. Let's wrap up 2013. ref: 2012's, 2011's.

Work

I changed my job at the end of May. At Quipper, I have very good experiences - new types of business (BtoB, BtoBtoC, alliance, etc.), new types of working environment (London office and Tokyo office), new types of field (education).

From last month, I worked with UK engineers more closely. I'm enjoying this opportunity. Communicating to native or non-native english speakers with my broken english is very exciting for me - it's like a extreme sport!

While Quipper is still a not successful company, but I can believe success of us - dreaming great future is the best motivation of work.

Life

Almost good. My condition is well, my wife is well, and my cat is well too. I extended my room contract next 2 years. I like this small town. It's quiet and comfort place.

I didn't do enough exercise in this year. I should do more, but I have no idea to make good habit for exercise.

I visited London at July. I was impressed diversity from London. I like that city.

Learning

Reading - not so much. I became to read Japanese technical books rarely. There are two big reasons: 1) too many books but very small amount of time to spend for reading, and 2) now reading English books/articles is more natural, not so special thing for me.

Coding - like as reading, sending pull request is not so special event for me. It's ordinary thing. I hadn't do much, but I still continue to code. It's good.

English - I tried several services for english study but I realised that I have to improve my listening skill before conversation. I started iKnow! for dictation and applied TOEIC. I could continue to learn english somehow.

Conferences and Events

I had a talk ‘Continuous gem dependency updating with Jenkins and Pull Request’ at RubyKaigi 2013. This talk might influence to Tachikoma. I'm satisfied with both speech and quality of material of this talk.

I talked at Tech Compass #6 and Hatena Engineer Blogger matsuri too. One regret thing is that I hadn't give a talk in English. The next big goal is giving a talk in English at international conference in foreign country.

Conclusion

2013 was big year. I hope 2014 is more great.