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kleiba on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: NSScreencast: Bite-sized Screencasts for iOS Devel...

Also, really good domain name!

That depends of course on your cultural and language background. In Germany, "NS" in a standard abbrevation for "Nationalsozialismus", the ideology of the Hitler regime from which the abbreviation "Nazi" derives. For instance, the time between '33 and '45 is typically called "NS-Zeit".

I don't think there's any danger, though, that anyone will confuse this website's content with anything related to that meaning ;-)

subdigital on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

Wow, kleiba, that's interesting to know

Of course "NS" is a play on Apple's Foundation classes that use the NextStep prefix for pseudo-namespaces.

It's unfortunate that it has connotations from our sordid past.

kleiba on Feb 16, 2012 | [–]

Yeah, I thought it was interesting too, but others apparently didn't, or why else the downvote?

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