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Re:Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Free... by mbreese on Monday September 19, 2011 @11:04PM (#3016091)
I don't think it's that the trivial problems are easy, but rather they don't understand the hard ones. Everyone has an opinion on the color to paint a bike shed [1], but technical problems are much tougher to conceptionally deal with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality

Edit: fixed link - thanks

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Re:Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Free... by jacques_chester on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:21AM (#3016261)
You have a slight typo in your link, it should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
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