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You've got two monitors, haven't you?
Work on your new solution in one, but keep the old "dissolution" open in the other, so you can look up all the little things that were added with duct tape, over the years (because they're probably more important than the core).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, after discovering few of the racist tweets from Microsoft's twitter bot TAY, I decided to check out its website[^]. It is such an eye burning design that after looking at the home page for a couple of minutes everything around me seemed to be changing its color 
I mean, look at the color combination and don't forget to re-size your browser window. The Microsoft logo will overlap with social buttons. 
Now I am wondering what was badly designed? website or the bot? I think still latter beats the former. Were the people at Microsoft in a hurry? Is the end of the world around the corner? 
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My eyes! 
Zafar Sultan wrote: Were the people at Microsoft in a hurry?
Probably the same reason every dev is in a hurry; the longer you work on something the more expensive it becomes
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yes. And now they will release a patch. The same old story...
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A patch for the website? The only thing it is lacking is Comic Sans 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No. A patch for bot.
But they are never short of comic-sense
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A scrolling text would fit in there nicely 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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And a couple of animated Gifs.
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<blink>Welcome!</blink>
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Comic Sans? Pah! That's for amateurs!
A bloke I worked with in the Windows 3.0 days wrote his status reports in Wedgie[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Zafar Sultan wrote: And now they will release a patch
I need two patches.
One for each eye.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: the longer you work on something the more expensive it becomes
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Zafar Sultan wrote: Were the people at Microsoft in a hurry?
Maybe they just didn't want to have to look at that for too long either?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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isn't it supposed to be a web site of a US teen ?
(just sayin').
I'd rather be phishing!
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I think i died a little while looking at that site 
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Whatt?? I know I slept late today but have I fallen through a time warp to the early '90s. It looks like a very early attempt using notepad, not notepad++!!!!!
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Didn't you hear?
Hot pink is the new black.
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Click the "menu" icon in the top-right
*shudder*
I think what has happened is maybe something that might happen more...I think they've designed a website for use on a mobile device, forgetting that mobiles are not the only way people use the internet.
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1990's everyone uses Javascript and websites have gaudy colours with some pages being filled mainly with advertising.
2000's that Javascript you were using can be a security risk so best not use it. Websites become flat, simple and readable.
2010's everyone uses Javascript and websites have gaudy colours with some pages being filled mainly with advertising.
...and the cycle continues...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That website was designed by a VB coder, and probably implemented by the same. It's amazing that Microsoft's QA would let that out in the public.
(Honestly, I could always tell VB apps by the garish colors they "skinned" the app with.)
Marc
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Looked a little MySpace'y'. The only thing missing was the blinking glitter.
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,<☼-↑ <= .,↑
]□-□_| -☼_
(5, 2, 3, 6, 3)
SOLVED - HobbyProggy was the one who posted the correct answer.
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
The 'The' at the beginning was lost because the web site I consulted for the lyrics to inform my hints listed it as 'House of the Rising Sun, The'.
Also, it was easier to obfuscate that way 
Hints:
1. In Dixieland, but not.
2. 'Blue' place in New Orleans.
modified 30-Mar-16 7:33am.
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Maybe a hint (like name of the poem or the poet)?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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HORBE OF THE SUBSAD BRA
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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I'd read that!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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