In particular, a plea to developers of applications that use a plug-in architecture: Please, please do some kind of lazy or deferred initialization of the plug-ins. Speaking as someone who routinely uses Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Final Cut Pro, I cannot count how much of my life I waste watching the “initializing plug-ins that you will never, ever use” messages zip by on the splash screen.
Thank you.
When was the last time a music video made you cry? This one did for me. (Requires iTunes. Via ongoing.)
“For a half-century, I have restricted my own criticism by posing this question—‘what would I do in their place?’”
— Raymond Aron