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The humor of Engineers

By Shawn Hartsock (author)

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From the wikipedia entry on Portal the video game:

“at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about fifteen minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.”

I wish I worked in a team that had conversations like that. Oh… wait… I do.

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