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		gesman on Jan 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Developers Don't Want to Work on Your Idea (20... The client who tries to give his own clueless estimate of complexity of the job - automatically gets into no-reply/spam list: "...and i think it's not that complicated" "...it shouldn't take more than ... to complete" "...Joe Blow said it's simple and let's assume that"

radio4fan on Jan 20, 2013 [–]

IME, that's pretty much all of them.

But then I think that nearly everyone has a tendency to think that anything they don't fully understand must be simple.

You don't have to hang around here or on Slashdot for long to see that programmers suffer from this too...

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