I believe that the need for complex variable naming conventions goes away with good object-oriented design. In the Spolsky article, much focus is on how variable naming helps preventing errors. I believe that those errors will more often occur when you have many variables in the same scope; this can be avoided by grouping data into objects - then, a single naming context will have only few variables, which don't need combined names.
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