I had an issue earlier this week where I needed to remote profile a java process, but it was not using the standard(?) RMI protocol. Some intense googling later, here are the obscure, but simple steps to get this working.

RMI requires two ports to communicate, whereas JMXMP only uses one. You'll need to port forward/tunnel that remote port to...

is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever have the misfortune of coming across.

I was at my parents house and they asked me to replace the ink cartridge in their printer. Great, easy task! Open the package, not really noticing that it said HP Instant Ink. Plug it in and bam, the printer says on its little screen "...

Software is hard. When writing a Java program, you're already so far up the Jenga tower that is a modern computing system that when a lower brick causes you to question your sanity, it's something else.

It is possible for the file metadata to be updated before the file payload is updated accordingly. Let that sink in.

Consider a...

Continuing from the previous post, we now look at optimizing the algorithm for determining max euclidean distance from the origin:



ishkabible...

This thread (help vampiracy aside) had a very interesting problem:

Given N intervals [a,b] and a number k, find the maximum common range of any k intervals.

This sounds like a computer science problem!

Some solutions to this problem space involve Interval Trees...