As you probably know, there's a big "gap" between Computer Science and programming. While on HN we mostly talk about in terms of job interviews, it's more endemic than that. Most of my colleagues (and myself, many times) dismiss anything related to academia or academic papers as too hard, theoretical, and not useful.

This not only applies to simple things such as coding a paper's algorithms to test it out, but can be manifested as a refusal to read old literature to avoid making the same mistakes people did decades ago.