I've never heard a left-handed complaining about the traditional gamepad layout.

And yet, many popular console FPSes have optional "southpaw" layouts that switch the left and right sticks.

now they will.

Kid Icarus on 3ds was completely unplayable as a lefty.

Well, that's the thing: if it was an obvious success from day one, others would have done it too.

On Google Play you can ask for a refund. The request gets forwarded to the developer who can accept to do the refund or not.

Steam could at least provide that.

They probably live in East Bay and have an awful commute every day.

Regarding #2, I've heard an interesting statistic recently.

The blue workers average salary went up 5% in one year in France. The reason? Recent waves of layoff impacted lower salaries more than the others. So the average went up, but the lucky ones who kept their job didn't see an increase on their paycheck.

Well, the thing is both Chrome and Firefox get updated automatically but IE doesn't.

So the problem will not IE versions that are already old (IE6, IE7) but current versions of IE - even future versions before they implement these new standards.

As these features roll out to Firefox and Chrome, users of these browsers will have to them because of the auto-update pretty quickly.

Eventually IE will implement them, maybe in version 12, and you'll have users still using IE10. Heck, maybe they won't be able to upgrade their IE because it won't run on their aging Windows 7.

Unless IE switches to the auto-update used by Firefox and Chrome, and stops dropping Windows versions in their new IE, I don't see the problem going away.

IIRC IE10 autoupdates

It's not that it's "Scala adapted to Java", but more like a choice to do async and functional programming even in Java. That makes stuff a bit verbose sometimes because to pass a function you have to pass an anonymous class.

That will become better with Java 8 and lambdas without having to break compatibility with older Java versions (they will still use anonymous classes).

I actually remember hearing an official from Cote d'Ivoire insisting that we should use "Cote d'Ivoire" in all languages.

People localizing their country name creates confusion, typically a citizen from Cote d'Ivoire unable to explain to an airport official where he's from because the official only knows the locally translated name.

It gets very complicated pretty quickly. You are aware that the way you pronounce "Russia" sounds completely different from the way Russians call their country, right? In fact English does not even have the proper sounds to replicate that (rolling "r" and palatalized "s" for starters).

Oh, and of course, there's no one Chinese spoken word for China. That's because there's no one Chinese spoken language, but lots.

Unfortunately modularity goes against the interests of companies producing gadgets. They'd rather have you buy a full upgrade every 2 years than just change a few components once in a while.

Yay, SOAP in JSON!