This post with its muddled arguments really does feel like a "jump the shark moment", and it's left me with a strong urge to finally unsubscribe. How about making a distinction between programming professionally and as a hobby? How about not creating a false dilemma between learning to program and doing other important things? Bloomberg can both be mayor and learn to code beyond the stupid GOTO example. How about not making posts titled "Please Don't Learn ", especially if the "whatever" is an increasingly important and accessible topic, and especially if there exists a marked lack of learning habits in society? How about not using bad analogies, like between plumbing and programming? Maybe your logic isn't that sound if you need to use comparisons to significantly dissimilar things to make it compelling. Just ugh!

Shame on you for referring to the unscientific, oversimplified bullshit that is Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

BrowserID is a Mozilla Labs project, and I've come to expect their projects to get discontinued, like it happened to Prism, Ubiquity etc.

Man, I don't get it. I think this post might be just an excuse to compare developers and sysadmins to cool creatures like vampires.