[Iftheshoefits]

The HN engineering and programming community seems to me to consist of a wide variety of different groups and types of programmers (coders/engineers/whatever).

It shouldn't be surprising that there is a group who feel "I'll just slap A to B" is a good idea (that's not what happens every time somebody copy-and-pastes, by the way--it's one extreme example, and it's possible to copy-and-paste with a deep and mature understanding of what one is doing). Just like it shouldn't be surprising when certain elements of other groups chime in with comments implying CS is some deeply intellectual study of the fundamental nature of mathematics and logic, and if a programmer isn't treating his Enterprise CRUD App X as a means to engage in a deeply intellectual study or application of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis he's doing it wrong, or he isn't a real programmer, etc.