Simon has been working on this technology for a while, and is fairly prolific about writing about it. It's more likely that it didn't "take long" for Simon to figure it out, but more that it was come to be realized that others had misconceptions about how it worked, thus the usefulness of posting about it presented itself.
Things usually aren't black and white, unless of course they are bits...
Things usually aren't black and white, unless of course they are bits...