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Gee, based on these comments you'd think some of these HNers have never read a math word-problem. Or did you all think that guy really did need 98 oranges?
by jcrash 3y ago
Gee, based on these comments you'd think some of these HNers have never read a math word-problem. Or did you all think that guy really did need 98 oranges?
- bowsamic 3y agoYeah getting a similar feeling. Lots of moral grandstanding about it too. HNers can’t see a fun thing without finding a way that it’s “problematic” or “misleading”
- lostlogin 3y agoPut another way, they played trains with the kids, then argued about layout options with some other adult after bedtime, and came up with some novel solutions which were tested with the kids next day. However if I’m any guide, a basic game ends up with me fighting a broken soldering iron or a bug in some language I don’t understand while the kid asks if we are there yet.
- sentientslug 3y agoYeah, a perfect thread to demonstrate the lower than average social literacy of HN users. It makes this community come off as a bunch of fun haters. This kind of fun low stakes “engineering problem” is exactly the type of thing that should be shared here, but everyone’s a critic I guess.
- mcv 3y agoNot sure what the two of you are complaining about. It's really just this sub-thread that's all complaining. Everybody else is sharing fun stuff.
- jcrash 3y agoWhen I originally commented a high number of the posts were taking OPs question very literally. You can scroll to the bottom of the comments to see a few of them.
- fouc 3y ago> Or did you all think that guy really did need 98 oranges? What is this in reference to?
- wlonkly 3y agoIntroductory math word problems often involve unrealistic quantities of things. "Alice had 100 oranges and Bob took two. How many does Alice have?" That sort of thing.