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This xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/844), have the following tooltip:

"You can either hang out in the Android Loop or the HURD loop."

http://xkcd.com/844

I think the "Android Loop" maybe is something like this

HURD has been under development for like 20 years because the developers can't be in agreement on how it should work. Maybe that is the "HURD loop".

Any thoughts?

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Hector, the link to the second image doesn't work anymore. Could you please either find a new link or describe in text what the image was about? – Yannis Rizos♦ Nov 16 '11 at 23:33
Link updated :) – Hector Nov 21 '11 at 17:12
updated link (http://www.absolutelyandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/image_thumb76_thum‌​b.png) is broken again: "The domain AbsolutelyAndroid.com is for sale" – gnat Apr 11 at 5:52
Definitely too localized. But explain xkcd is specialized in exactly this. – Joachim Sauer Apr 11 at 8:39

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I think you are mostly correct. The comic seems to be making a point of the differences in the speed of project development cycles. Android, for example, seems to come out with a new version every week (or it did for a while), whereas HURD has an insanely slow dev cycle in that a stable release hasn't really come out yet and it's been going on for decades.

The "loop" of course refers to the loops that form in the flowchart based on the type of project ("HURD-like" or "Android-like").

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