[blasdel]

Verbs!

Getter and setter methods on objects are like OK and Cancel buttons in dialogs. Just because it's uniform industry "best practice" doesn't make it not completely retarded and obscurantist.

[rbanffy]

Usually people think "best practice" is "everybody does it this way".

[jafl5272]

Sad, but true. And this explains the state of the Linux desktop today: copied from Microsoft instead of inspired by Apple.