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1. Tripfag
2. I did verify with a number of people that we steer better with the left hand, and it's a matter of fact that all gamepad designers, including those with millions of dollars of budget to create the most comfortable gamepad ever placed the main directional pads on the left.
3. No, vim didn't stay around for so long because it was good. It stayed alive because it's the only piece of shit you had to edit text files under Unix in a more-powerful-than-Notepad sense until RMS came up with emacs, which sucks too. It also stayed because terminals were a piece of shit and didn't have/had crippled control and arrow keys and were all different, because of which you had to work with alphanumeric keys on terminals. For good or bad (good in the past, probably not as good today), Unix is very terminal-oriented. On top of that, vi is always available while other possibly better editors aren't, just like zip is always available while rar or 7-zip aren't. Even today, when you connect to some host, the only editor you know for sure that will work is vi, because it's always available and because it doesn't require any special key other than Escape.
But this doesn't make vim any good. Not at all. In fact, it isn't. At all.