I think this is an instance of one of the hard problems in computer science: naming things. When thinking about "-er" names to avoid, think about "Executor" an

I think this is an instance of one of the hard problems in computer science: naming things. When thinking about "-er" names to avoid, think about "Executor" and its ilk. Contrast that with this example and I see "APIHelper" and "ModelFetcher" that should probably just be called "MyBackgroundThread" or some such with methods for fetching models and making synchronous HTTP requests. In other words, I think avoiding "-er" is a specialization of http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom....