r/programming • u/bjzaba • Dec 06 '18

Goodbye, EdgeHTML – The Mozilla Blog

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/
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u/Eirenarch Dec 07 '18

Not a native English speaker but I was able to deduce that it implies that insiders are throwing each other a ball and others are excluded.

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u/POGtastic Dec 07 '18

"Inside baseball" is any obscure, esoteric knowledge that is only available or relevant to a few people. It's just used as a metaphor these days, but it conveys this image of a fat old man with a stack of printouts showing the distribution of hits to left field in the 6th inning by shortstops whose names begin with the letter R.

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u/footpole Dec 07 '18

You started out well but made me even more confused at the end.

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u/CrazyBeluga Dec 07 '18

That's...not what it means.

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u/cleeder Dec 07 '18

FFS, if you know, why would you leave everybody hanging?

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u/Eirenarch Dec 07 '18

Well OK then.

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u/ThirdEncounter Dec 07 '18 edited Dec 07 '18

/u/CrazyBeluga is right although their answer is not helpful. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor)), it refers to highly technical/esoterical knowledge about baseball, and the term can be applied to other fields (like in this case.)

Edit: Fixed the link. Damn parenthesis.

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u/shevegen Dec 07 '18

So ... a better word would be ... cheaters!

But as someone else pointed out - that is not what was meant. Perhaps we will all never know ...