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is this criticizing hackers and/or programmers?

I am not sure it is so much criticizing as much as it is simply describing.

Being passionate about something to the exclusion of every thing else is a common human folly.

That something being knowledge is common for us hackers.

the excerpt uses very grim words for something which is just "describing".

that said, I agree with your last 2 sentences

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