scpike's comments

It worked for me on ubuntu as a free user, even though the site said it wouldn't. I did experience issues with the ads getting stuck visible over the interface, but the audio worked fine.

My guess is that by "the appropriate break point for a line" the author means the break point that makes the result look the best, not just chopping at 13 characters. In order to match what a human would be able to do easily, you'd need to implement something like what tex does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap#Minimum_raggedness).

The article is from 2007, when typical starting salaries in Manhattan were in the $55-$65K range (since increased to at least ~80K).