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pretz
4474 days ago
The site's name is an Apple/OSX cultural reference. It refers to NeXSTEP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep
In particular, the core classes of Objective-c (and thus Cocoa and Cocoa Touch for iOS) use NS as a prefix:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...