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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by carapace on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:55AM (#16855575)
I think it was Ted Nelson who pointed out that Mark Miller's name is his vocation.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_S._Miller )

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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by gowld on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:05AM (#16855622)
What's a miller do?
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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by carapace on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:24AM (#16855710)
A miller operates a mill. The joke hinges on the idea of a computer as a "mill" for information, a symbol grinder.
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Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008) by kwhitefoot on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:42AM (#16864941)
Babbage called the 'cpu' in the Analytical engine the 'mill'.
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