> Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones

> Yes, if you're learning arbitrary lists of items such foreign language vocabulary, or a medical student memorizing the Latin naming for all the various bones of a human body then spaced repetition is what to use. I've just never had an analogous situation in programming. I'll give a few examples of cards that I have. > Why is the time complexity of Java's List#subList constant? > Why are OOM errors common in Spark? > What does EXPLAIN do in Postgres? > How do you run a command on the command line in Vim? > How are map entries in HBase/BigTable sorted? > Why are HBase column families difficult to modify? > When should you use a JtaTransactionManager? > What makes read-your-writes consistency difficult? > Why does ElasticSearch not have transactions? > What is a common implementation for JPA? > What is the observer pattern? > What is syslog? It's definitely helped me as a software engineer. Here is a guide on making better prompts: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/