I find myself doing the opposite, since I write stuff once (at most, since there is auto-complete and copy & paste), but read it a lot more often. I find reading long variable names takes exactly as long as reading short words, but with less mental overhead. So instead of something like srv_mem_max, I have stuff like "server__max_allocated_memory". It doesn't affect the output or the compiled result, after all.

I think, and hope, the throwaway was being sarcastic. :)