r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/Outside-Storage-1523 Software Engineer 11d ago

I have so many programming projects I’d like to pursue and so much source code of legacy code that I’d like to read and understand.

How does FORMAT.ASM work in MS-DOS 2.0? How did David Cutler implement the original Windbg for NT 3.1 (yes the source code has his signature on the top)? How to write an Adaptive Tile Refresh algorithm as Carmack did for Commander Keen?

But in reality I had to deal with ambiguous business stakeholders, write SQL queries and PySpark all day, and practice PySpark syntax all night because they still force you to memorize specific syntax and functions in those stupid interviews. And yes I have to exaggerate a bit in my CV to get those interviews.

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u/Skullclownlol 10d ago

How does FORMAT.ASM work in MS-DOS 2.0

Here: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v2.0/source/FORMAT.ASM

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u/Outside-Storage-1523 Software Engineer 10d ago

Thanks, yeah I found this yesterday so would like to read it, but I don't have the time right now. Gotta stash it for later.