I'm not sure how well "like to tinker with new paradigms/programming languages" correlates with "really good", though. Some of the best people i've worked with

I'm not sure how well "like to tinker with new paradigms/programming languages" correlates with "really good", though. Some of the best people i've worked with were quite conservative technically (some weren't keen on this new 'Java' thing), but were masters at finding the right way to approach problems, being conscientious in their work, etc. The correlation coefficient probably isn't negative, but it's not 1 either. 0.3?