This is interesting due to the concept of Oodi being totally different from most libraries and only to some extent fitting the definition of a library [1].

Oodi is more of a living meeting place for people where you can play board games, video games, make art, 3D prints, music and such. It might be dubbed as a library to ensure that its visitors have a vague understanding of the place i.e. it's free to use all the services and open to anyone.

[1] "A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources.." as per Wikipedea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library

"Oodi is more of a living meeting place for people where you can play board games, video games, make art, 3D prints, music and such."

Ask any librarian today and they'll say that's what a library is now. Or at least that's probably what they want their library to be now. This probably only goes for public librarians.

My love of wandering through the stacks of a library is definitely nostalgia-driven but there's something about being around mountains of books that is exciting. Probably the same reason people like old record stores, flea markets and bargain stores like winners...

The future of massive theme parks is super interesting when VR, AR and other tech can be utilized at scale. Theme parks are making tons of money but they still rely some very old fashioned ways of entertainment. I mean, for Universal in Orlando, it seems, 3D coasters are the creme de la creme.

Or what do you think, where’s the future of the biggest theme parks?

No future for theme parks once the experience can be replicated in VR.

That’s a good question. Then again, it seems that for some people tinkering serves more as a hobby that they just like doing.

By tinkering and customizing you might gain a productive work environment but the way I see it is that some people just want to tinker because it makes them happy. The ’increased productivity’ seems to be more of a way to rationalize it to oneself.

While blaming others for it, aren’t you providing a pretty strong anecdotal opinion yourself?

Some people prefer Windows, some Linux and some MacOS. These days you can get work done with all of the most popular OSes without losing a lot in productivity. Beyond that it’s just a matter of preference.

Personally I have opted for Apple ecosystem but can’t really argue it being universally better than others. But then again, dont really feel the need to make that claim either. Just use the software and hardware you are most happy & efficient with.

I don't have to be anecdotal at all, I can count the service cases as a proportion of workstations and tell you that my team get more mac service issues per machine than Windows.

Microsoft Office on Mac is a big cause. I have some users who only use Office or a browser and still use Mac. I cannot understand it, Office on Mac is simply bit as good as Office on Windows.

Thanks for the comments and questions.

Our thinking follows, what we call a ‘venture client’ approach, through which startups get a valuable asset, a globally operating reference customer, without a hassle. For instance, we use an expedited procurement process and leaner legal approach in POs. The industrial companies, on the other hand, get to apply new technologies and talent quicker in building new services, solutions and products that can add value to their customers or other stakeholders.

Venture Client approach also means, that when announce a business opportunity, we also make sure there’s significant need from the company, budget to make purchase order (revenue for the startup) and team in place to act fast given there’s a solid applicable solution. Venture Client also means that the industrial company understands there’s associated risk in building something new with startups - but also major upsides in time-to-value if done succesfully.

So far our approach has been warmly welcomed by startups and investors. We aim to keep it simple, fast and fair. We have plenty of references which we are adding to our website, some you can already access on our site.

Needless to say, this might not be of interest to all entrepreneurs or startups but there might be plenty of those who could benefit from the approach.

Somehow had completely missed this. While it doesn't answer the community-aspect which I consider the real source of value behind Hacker News, Satori's RSS data seems quite interesting from a technical standpoint. Thank you.

"My only comment is in how you measure the value of an address." This. Having lived in the center (reddish area) and later also in southern Helsinki (bluish green), I strongly prefer the latter due to it's proximity to the sea and as it's way quieter area without busses, trams or general traffic. And judging by housing prices so do many others who live in the city.

Don't get me wrong. I found the map highly interesting but maybe in determining best places to live it's a bit of a stretch. There might more value here for businesses that aim to be easily reachable.