He didn't quit his job. He even wrote a follow up about how HN had misinterpreted what he said. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-steve

He didn't quit his job. He even wrote a follow up about how HN had misinterpreted what he said. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-steve-yegge.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st... Separately, he also wrote a post that was critical of Google+ (he accidentally published publically what was supposed to be an internal post). He wrote a follow-up to that too saying nothing bad happened to him at Google.