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Non-minority here. IMHO, the question is valid and should not be flagged. It’s ok to look for/ask about a version of it where a particular demographic feels more represented/included. That does not invalidate the site or the people who don’t belong to such groups, and having the question flagged so fast only raises suspicions over the alleged neutrality of the site regarding gender, etc.

Glad to hear. That comment was in jest, of course!

Last paragraph is the reason why I don't have kids

If you really allow me to be honest (and a bit harsh): you seem to believe to be entitled with life being a fair game. It isn't. Human nature is very diversified, and there will be those that won't give a damn to what you consider to be ethical behavior. I can understand that - it took me some time to find the balance between protecting myself against ill-intentioned people while not shutting everyone out.

You seem to worry on the long story with the fact that the "bad guy" is still on the loose. I'll be honest again: this seems like you're unconsciously trying to find justification to get even with him - after all, preventing other from "potentially fall in to his trap" sounds way better than, say, "get personal justice" - or (let's face it) "revenge".

Sorry for the hard tone, but I think mellowing the words will lead you to wasting time, money (and possibly reputation - let's remember how good this person is on that) on a rotten past which already taught you valuable lessons that seem to have helped on your career.

Instead, focus on your present and future. Life is short, and you certainly have people and endeavors that deserve your attention. Move on and have a great day!

Can I buy a server and only pay after I mine its price in bitcoins with it? :-)

(pretty please with sugar, don't take this joke seriously)

I'd love Kinect + Oculus Rift puzzles: you'd have the board surround you, and manipulate the tiles with your hands. This would convince me that the future arrived! :-)

Heh, my current struggle is precisely trying to have tiles with different colors for each value (my last attempt fell 2 cycles short of achieving it). David Crane's DPC chip is indeed impressive (like pretty much everything he did on the Atari), and would at least free one register and shave enough to allow it, but I'd like to do that with "standard" Atari hardware. Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

I get your point, but I must say that the Apple II had LISA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazer%27s_Interactive_Symbolic_...), which wasn't half bad for the machine - guess I was a luckier 13 year old, because I happened to have stumbled upon a copy :-)

Also, developers who had a bit more of resources (e.g., minicomputers) even used them to emulate 8-bit systems (unlikely to have been done for the Atari, due to the complexity of TIA, but a textbook case is how Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the Altair Basic using Allen's 8080 emulator for the PDP-10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC).

Glad you liked it! I spent some (fun) time to squeeze the different width tiles in ways that would work well on different sizes, some working better than the others. If someone wants to improve upon it (the tiles are human-editable here: https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600/blob/master/tilegen.r...), I'd be happy to take a look!

Awesome, thanks for the (impressively quick) fix! Already merged and built into the repo binary.