I made a version of Mahjong Solitaire for Yahoo! Games back in the early aughties. I was stuck in figuring out how to make each board solvable. I asked Udi Manber, and he obviously in hind sight, was like, "why don't you just place them in pairs to set up?"

Relatable! My first version of the tile generation placed every tile randomly, which meant I always got stuck, haha. Setting the board up in pairs is indeed what solved the issue.

clearly you've never ran any big site (yahoo, netflix, unitedheroes, etc) where complex configs are required.

I don't see how that's clear at all. And which of those three do you work at, btw?

heh. I used to work at Yahoo, I currently work at Netflix, and my personal site is unitedheroes.net.

I also know chad and he's being a dork. (hey, i appreciate a well crafted troll.)