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		sillysaurus3 on Dec 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The inventor of the SR-71's rules for project mana... Howso? Without unsafe, you can't do what you need to do. That's the definition of "necessary for making useful software."

codygman on Dec 20, 2014 [–]

Can you define "what you need to do"?

For instance, if I want to download/parse an html webpage or make some sort of web crawler or bot, why would I need unsafe?

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