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Toru Jan 13, 2015Jan 03, 2024 development resources, GUI, Java, JavaFX, Swing, widget toolkit

Break Away From Swing

Today, I considered whether or not to break away from Swing-based development. Swing is a famous GUI widget toolkit for Read More
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Toru Jan 12, 2015Jan 03, 2024 airport lounge, bare truth, chair, confused, couple, embarrassing event, gesture, hastily, international conference, light meal, seater table, Singapore, smile

A Little Embarrassing Story

I suddenly remembered my embarrassing event in the last year. Today, I want to write the bare truth. I participated Read More
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Toru Jan 11, 2015Jan 02, 2024 English statements, listening section, mark sheet, nervous, phase problem section, TOEIC

TOEIC Test Day

Today was the TOEIC test day, so I was a little nervous. And I took the TOEIC test. At first, Read More
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Toru Jan 10, 2015Jan 02, 2024 2000 coins, coin toss, heads, normal distribution, probability, tails

Coin Tossing Probability

Today, I want to talk about coin toss probability. Please imagine that you toss 2000 coins. Each coin will fall Read More
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Toru Jan 09, 2015Jan 02, 2024 annoyed, beginner, boss, criticized, not studying, professional programmer, student, study, trashy programming, wasting time

Although I rarely get annoyed, I was different today.

Although I rarely get annoyed, I was different today. A student told me something like “You might be criticized by Read More
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Toru Jan 08, 2015Jan 02, 2024 Adobe Creative Suite 6, earthquake, exclusive illustrator, figure, illustrator, learning, one-on-one meeting, opportunity, paper, Photoshop, professor of engineering, project, software engineer

Meeting with a Professor

Today, I had an one-on-one meeting with a professor of engineering about his paper’s figure. The professor’s study is related Read More
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Toru Jan 07, 2015Jan 02, 2024 barber, hair cut, headache, progress, rest, sleep

I visited a barber and had my hair cut this morning.

I visited a barber and had my hair cut this morning. And then I went to my university. But I Read More
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Toru Jan 06, 2015Jan 02, 2024 dictating, educational, efficiency, frozen, movie

I finally finished dictating all dialogues of the “Frozen”.

I finally finished dictating all dialogues of the “Frozen”. As expected, it took me 2 hours to complete last 20%. Read More
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Toru Jan 05, 2015Jan 02, 2024 dialogues, dictation, dictionaries, feisty-pants, frozen, linear relationship, pants, progress rate, required time

Linear Relationship

Today, I dictated the dialogues of the “Frozen” as with yesterday. 3 hours after I started, just 80% of the Read More
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