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Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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yes, as there always has been in the grammar of English and many other languages.

The commenter your responding to is most likely using "gender" to refer to the concept you would describe as "sex". That is, the biological characteristic of being male or female rather than a grammatical concept.

Sex isn't binary either.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#63

I love security posts like this. His previous one about facebook messenger status was also really nicely done. He doesn't succumb to the temptation to be abusive (to either the people who made the thing he's testing, the people reading, or anyone who might be impacted by it), which is something a lot of security researchers seem to find impossible to avoid; there's a lot of calling people various forms of stupid in m…

The overall technical outline of the issue and what he did to figure it out are clear — and certainly interesting — but I am having a hard time reading the blog post. This writing style is exhausting to me. Instead of reading normally I find myself skipping more and more text to get to the bits that aren't silly jokes and internet slang. A shame, because it hides the technical insights he has.

At least he's not inserting meme-pictures every other paragraph, which seems to be thing now even in otherwise well-written material.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#65

I love security posts like this. His previous one about facebook messenger status was also really nicely done. He doesn't succumb to the temptation to be abusive (to either the people who made the thing he's testing, the people reading, or anyone who might be impacted by it), which is something a lot of security researchers seem to find impossible to avoid; there's a lot of calling people various forms of stupid in m…

The overall technical outline of the issue and what he did to figure it out are clear — and certainly interesting — but I am having a hard time reading the blog post. This writing style is exhausting to me. Instead of reading normally I find myself skipping more and more text to get to the bits that aren't silly jokes and internet slang. A shame, because it hides the technical insights he has. At least he's not inser…

I guess it could be more concise, but I rather enjoyed the humor. It's not an area I'm passionate about, even though it is important, so having it interlaced with jokes (silly though they may be) was a net win for me.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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Are there more than two genders now?

Yes, and I'm not sure why he's getting downvoted. This is a legitimate Facebook feature. Gender can be either Male, Female, or Custom, and Facebook gives you the option to choose which gender pronouns you prefer. Thus, to see it represented as a boolean is unusual. I'm curious as to what the value of that field is when a user has chosen Facebook's custom gender display options.

I am sticking with the biological definition.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The commenter your responding to is most likely using "gender" to refer to the concept you would describe as "sex". That is, the biological characteristic of being male or female rather than a grammatical concept.

Sex isn't binary either.

In the vast majority of cases it is.

Re: Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder

#70

What is the format for the SECRETS.json file since it needs to include both the auth token and the facebook id? f = open(SECRETS.json) self.fb_auth = json.load(f) So does it matter what I name the auth parameters or just that I set the values correctly? i.e: { "auth_token" : "TOKENVAL", "fb_id" : "IDVAL" }

As cfreeman commented to markwaldron in another comment - See here: https://gist.github.com/rtt/10403467#authenticating
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