For anybody curious, I did a quick search and came up with these:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14941564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10567261
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774715
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296347
The posts are chronological, so you can kind of see the idea developing in Mr. Rochefort's mind.