This whole rhetorical question/joke was a reference to "the comeback of all time" (also involving Colin Percival): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 h

This whole rhetorical question/joke was a reference to "the comeback of all time" (also involving Colin Percival): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079