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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?

Good work Radford Neal!

What do the other 46% do?

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.

Yeah, Montreal and Halifax, but no Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto

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.