Just out of curiosity, are start ups in other countries like Canada and Europe subject to patent trolling as well or do patent trolls avoid suing outside of America?
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as I read this. If you calculate the cross correlation of two signals by performing a Fourier transform and then multiplying them, it gives you the correlation of the signals at different offsets as well. Maybe it's hard to calculate the FFT of a dataset that doesn't fit in one machine's memory. Been a while since I studied the FFT.
Former EDA GUI programmer here, I feel your pain!
The lack of multithreaded execution can be a bitch. Worse is the lack of ways to "group" data together, I don't need full out OOP concepts like classes, methods and inheritance, just simple C structs would improve the flow of large programs a lot.
I also found a few bugs in the file selection dialog code. Someone on my team got an error during bug testing. I traced it to the file selection code built into TK and patched it there. Then I got curious, the same bugs were reproducible in ModelSim.
There's a new book that seems to be about best practices for writing software in R. It's called 'The Art of R Programming'. I got a review copy but I haven't read it much yet, but the premise is that the book actually focuses on R programming techniques as opposed to introducing statistics using R.