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muk:~ fiam$ echo '{ "name":"John Smith"... }'|wc -c

303

muk:~ fiam$ echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <json:object> … </json:object>' |wc -c

904

I don't really have anything else to say.

Edit: formatting

Edit: removed wrong link

http://imgur.com/a/OeAwD

Disclaimer: I'm the developer

It will check the referrer and redirect you to the mirrored copy of the linked article.

     // The UIApplicationDelegate protocol requires you implement this function. 
     // It will return our main UIWindow so the application (UIApplicationMain from main.m) 
     // knows where to start.
     - (UIWindow *) getMainWindow;

fiam@raichu:~/printful$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0

vendor_id : AuthenticAMD

cpu family : 6

model : 8

model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+

fiam@raichu:~/printful$ python readable.py http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/world/europe/25moscow.html > /dev/null

Took 0.193097171783 seconds for http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/world/europe/25moscow.html

I'd say that hosting something like this on App Engine, which prevents you from using C extensions, is not a very good idea.

Edit: formatting

    //do nothing

    ptrace(PT_DENY_ATTACH, 0, 0, 0);

I really have a hard time taking advice on copy protection from someone who doesn't known about ifndef.

Furthermore, PT_DENY_ATTACH won't help because any cracker worth is salt will just open the binary with an hex editor and remove the call to ptrace(). The other two tips to prevent cracking are, at best, as useless as this one.

And just in case you're wondering, those three methods are equally useless on iOS.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4558666583_fe0d50604e.jp...

The problem is the server resources they consume. If I just ignore the pirates and the legit/pirate users ratio continues to be the same, I'll need 5x more server capacity to keep the app running. That's a really big increase in the hosting costs.

Dear user,

I cannot let you use <app_name> for free anymore blah blah blah. If you truly cannot afford it, drop me an email and we'll work something out. Sincerely, <my name>.

Adding a couple of buttons at the bottom, one for sending me an email and another one for buying the app.

Since I have complete control over the HTML which is displayed in the devices, I can store the position where the reader is at just by recording an offset in the HTML code and doing some calculations with it.

I guess the key difference between Printul and the big players is that they are (or will be, in the case of Flipboard) monetizing via ads, while I monetize selling the apps themselves. I don't need (nor want) this to grow into a multi million user service, it can be profitable just with selling around 100 copies a month (which I guess it's a reasonable number).

"Latitudie is still better; fun to see google playing catchup. :)"

Of course, I'm biased.