"[Outwardly focused developers] copy and paste code they find in blog posts even if they don’t actually know how it works."
"Both [the vocation/avocation and inwardly/outwardly focused] scales are value neutral."
I think the first is clearly describing a bad developer. I suspect it is also meant to. There are other such instances in the post, which I fear drains it of content. Sticking with the second scale, it seems to me that when faced with a problem, the appropriate Ruby code ought to be:
def solve problem
my_solution = hypothesize_solution_to(problem)
existing_solutions = find_existing_solutions_to(problem)
#The sort other is by quality
existing_solutions.sort!
existing_solutions.reject do |solution|
solution.sucks? or my_solution.better_than?(solution)
end
return existing_solutions.first unless existing_solutions.empty?
my_solution
end