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The name is interesting. I wonder if it's a reference to carbon 14, the radioactive isotope of carbon used for carbon dating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating

Or, maybe the service is 4.66 times as good as Amazon S3?

Or, the 14th letter of the alphabet is N. If we swap that for 14 we get "CN", which is the top-level domain for China, which is most certainly not in France.

The conspiracy theory possibilities are endless! ;)

This is a really cool start! In the future, I'd love to be able to set preferences and save them to local storage. (For example, it would be nice to be able to set date formatting or location.) I know I could grab a copy of the code and then change those things myself, but then upgrades would be a pain. Overall, though, good stuff!

Sublime Text isn't free; it's sold on the honor system:

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."

The developer could try to enforce this rule by building in DRM or by threatening legal action, but those things would make for a pretty crappy user experience. Instead, the author chose to do the right thing by users and provide an evaluation version with no restrictions.

Legally and technically, you can certainly use Sublime Text without paying for it. To me, though, using Sublime Text for your everyday work without paying for it is the ethical equivalent of using a cracked version of Photoshop.

Cool stuff! This reminds me a lot of jQuery Boilerplate: https://github.com/jquery-boilerplate/jquery-boilerplate/blo...

Personally, I find the "that" variable to be a little confusing. A developer looking at the code might wonder whether "that" is the plugin, a DOM element, or something else. To make the code a little clearer, you could use something like "elem" to represent the element on which the plugin has been called, and "plugin" to represent the plugin itself.

Happy coding!