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by jiggy2011 4815 days ago
Yes, there's a pretty fine intersection between stuff that is "awesome" and stuff that is actually hard, especially if you are pitching to non technical types.

Carefully design a distributed system so that it handles all of the one-in-a-million concurrency edge cases correctly , logs exceptions properly and has proper tests and documentation; hard but not "awesome".

Creating an HTML page and filling it up with jquery plugins , "totally rad dude!"