"Think of branches in two categories: public and private.

Public branches are the authoritative history of the project. In a public branch, every commit should be succinct, atomic, and have a well documented commit message. It should be as linear as possible. It should be immutable. Public branches include Master and release branches.

A private branch is for yourself. It’s your scratch paper while working out a problem.

It’s safest to keep private branches local. If you do need to push one, maybe to synchronize your work and home computers, tell your teammates that the branch you pushed is private so they don’t base work off of it."

We feed paper documents into IT systems. Our service understands handwriting and ambiguous data. It works by combining computers with distributed human intelligence.

A crowdsourcing startup, Microtask, is ripping crowdsourced labor into even smaller pieces. Microtask's automated platform splits dull, repetitive tasks into tiny pieces and distributes them over the Internet.

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