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mbreese on Sept 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit:...

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

jacques_chester on Sept 20, 2011 [–]

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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