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Apologies for nit-picking at punctuation, but occasionally it matters :-) "Twilio is over-billing ..." = Twilio is charging more than they should. "Twillio is
by screwt 13y ago
Apologies for nit-picking at punctuation, but occasionally it matters :-)
"Twilio is over-billing ..." = Twilio is charging more than they should.
"Twillio is over billing ..." = Twilio has given up on billing. It's so over.
Just my personal bugbear - but sometimes it's worth getting this sort of thing correct. Apologies if this is just a US/UK difference, also (I'm in the UK).
- peterjmag 13y agoSince we're already nitpicking, "overbilling" (without the hyphen) is probably better. https://www.google.com/search?q="overbilling" https://www.google.com/search?q="overbilling" vs. https://www.google.com/search?q="over-billing" https://www.google.com/search?q="over-billing"
- 300bps 13y agoI'm from the US and I also originally thought the headline was saying something along the lines of "Trilio [has ended the practice of] billing and suspending accounts". When I clicked on the article I realized that they were "over-billing" instead of "over billing".
- sjtgraham 13y agoNot a single person was confused by this, including me, a British dude sitting in the middle of London.
- krisoft 13y agoNow you got me confused. You are saying that no one was confused, not even you. Or you say that it was confusing not only for a single person, but for you too?
- sjtgraham 13y agoI'm happy to take the karma hit I'll get for this, but IMO this is emblematic of a large problem with HN, i.e. asinine bike-shedding. I address an unhelpful nitpicking comment and get a nitpicking reply. It's turtles all the way down.
- mikeash 13y agoThe fact that two of your sibling comments are from people who were confused by this is just hilarious.
- sjtgraham 13y agoMy apologies, I clearly underestimated how many pedants comment on HN.
- fallingmeat 13y agoagreed. I was excited to see how they were getting around that pesky issue of billing people.
- donpdonp 13y agosame here. I was hoping the story introduced a new paradigm of charging that eliminated 'suspending' accounts all together, such as pre-paid.