when you go to codeacademy that is your choice to improve yourself, and you either enrich yourself or quit. Fine. Very few on HN say, "you're an awful person, you tried to code on codeacademy and couldn't do it" (OK maybe someone might rag on a non-technical MBA that tries to pull the strings on engineers without understanding the damage they are causing).
When the government urges people to go do things (presumably to be followed by things like subsidies), it is a recipe for blowing up the industry by steamrolling people through it. Good examples abound: Home ownership. Going to college. Getting into STEM.
A few months ago when someone taught a homeless man to code we congratulated him on improving another man's lot in life.
We continue to give kudos to folks like CodeAcademy for teaching people how to code free of charge and introducing more people to our industry.
But when the government does it it's a conspiracy the depress wages?
Sometimes I just... nevermind, I forget where I am.