This doesn't work well on mobile devices. Hopefully it doesn't become a trend.
Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document
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#142Fucking incredible.
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#143If you click on the Tab 'FRANCES CHANGED MY LIFE' it shows that band members John and Zoe have a daughter Frances. They're raising money to fund research into Frances' rare neurological disease: "Frances has a rare genetic mutation that causes a degenerative disease called DHDDS. In the last few years, breakthroughs in medical science have made it possible to develop a treatment. Unfortunately, it's extremely expensi…
These things always make me uneasy. On the one hand, I understand they are in a very hard situation. On the other hand, donating to research into rare neurological diseases will literally save hundreds of times fewer lives than donating to "effective" charities ( https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ )
That’s some harsh utilitarianism.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm not expecting a lot from their song writing after this statement. They are actually quite a well-known band, so you shouldn’t be so cynical. People on HN love to judge things before they know anything about it. This band has won a Grammy award, but you were content to assume the worst for trivial reasons.
A band name is not trivial. It doesn't seem they spent any time or effort thinking up a good one (unless of course there is a marketing angle here, and the name (and band?) was entirely manufactured).
Let’s be real, the Beatles is one of the worst band names ever. People often name their band when they are young and they get stuck with it.
If Portugal the man is manufactured (entirely baseless claim) they did a pretty terrible job with it. They recorded and toured for ~15 years before getting any mainstream success.
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#145A fun funky idea. Sad I can’t think of a ton of HN worthy ideas of musical acts making newsworthy tech-empowered quirky choices. The last thing that comes to mind is Radiohead making In Rainbows pay-what-you-want.
One Hacker Band is a robot band that plays real instruments.
Vulfpeck fans won’t shut up about the fact that the band made their own font.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
For your next app backend, you should try SQLPage [1][2] It makes creating a small web form to feed your database as easy as SELECT 'form' AS component; SELECT name, label, type FROM form_fields; INSERT INTO parties(name, date) VALUES(:name, :date); And creating an api on top of that db as simple as: SELECT 'json' AS component, (SELECT JSON_GROUP_ARRAY(JSON_OBJECT('name', name, 'date', date)) FROM parties) AS content…
Thanks for building this, and for the sample code :) Although what sheets excels at is batch editing and collaboration, which is really hard to get in an SQL frontend. My brother usually runs a Raycast workflow I wrote for him to extract a small number of party data as TSV which gets copied in clipboard. Then in sheets he can just paste that to get full rows and columns populated. After that he and his friends start…
Django provides an admin page that makes it easy for non programmers to update SQL tables so thats worth looking into as well
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
For your next app backend, you should try SQLPage [1][2] It makes creating a small web form to feed your database as easy as SELECT 'form' AS component; SELECT name, label, type FROM form_fields; INSERT INTO parties(name, date) VALUES(:name, :date); And creating an api on top of that db as simple as: SELECT 'json' AS component, (SELECT JSON_GROUP_ARRAY(JSON_OBJECT('name', name, 'date', date)) FROM parties) AS content…
Thanks for building this, and for the sample code :) Although what sheets excels at is batch editing and collaboration, which is really hard to get in an SQL frontend. My brother usually runs a Raycast workflow I wrote for him to extract a small number of party data as TSV which gets copied in clipboard. Then in sheets he can just paste that to get full rows and columns populated. After that he and his friends start…
> Although what sheets excels at
well played
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#148Love it when a band does something weird or interesting with their website. My favorite is The Strokes: https://www.thestrokes.com/
There's also https://redfoo.com/
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#149If you click on the Tab 'FRANCES CHANGED MY LIFE' it shows that band members John and Zoe have a daughter Frances. They're raising money to fund research into Frances' rare neurological disease: "Frances has a rare genetic mutation that causes a degenerative disease called DHDDS. In the last few years, breakthroughs in medical science have made it possible to develop a treatment. Unfortunately, it's extremely expensi…
These things always make me uneasy. On the one hand, I understand they are in a very hard situation. On the other hand, donating to research into rare neurological diseases will literally save hundreds of times fewer lives than donating to "effective" charities ( https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ )
Effective altruism has worked out pretty well, hasn’t it?
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#150FYI they are rising money to save their kid https://gofund.me/d012bb5b
the tech side is fun but the most important link is hidden and I see very few donations rolling it for it to be home the HN front page