chunks

Any number of companies have dropped huge chunks of existing code base, Apple and Google included.

Go back to the drawing board or user and split the task in smaller chunks.

The free time a programmer isn't guaranteed to be available in large chunks for hacking.

Inside your own process, however, you can do whatever you want by diving tasks in small chunks, without the need for threads.

File-sharers sprayed multiple copies of huge files across several newsgroups, in little chunks.

It is really easy to create a threaded application that has lower performance than a single threaded application that divides work by chunks.

Bandwidth from a company like Alpha Red works out to about 3 cents/gigabyte if you buy it in 50 megabit per second chunks, or 6 cents/gigabyte if you buy it in 4tb per month chunks.

If any of those chunks went missing, our users screamed bloody murder.

It's much harder for stuff like music or NYT articles, where the consumable chunks of content are small and teasers don't make much sense.

I admit that I smiled when I saw a big response to me with chunks of predicate logic in it.

You could easily download a few chunks from the clients to verify that they are sharing copyrighted works without ever uploading anything to them.

Of course, more often they're boiling political agendas down to 140 characters, or worse, splitting a page-length message up into 17 chunks tagged (1/17).

Directing a crawl against big chunks of the web and filtering the results to find the needle in the internet haystack has many challenges, and certainly puts our core work in the "Big Data" realm.

I think his point is that when you "divide tasks in small chunks", you are no longer writing code in the way that is most convenient for you but in a way that gets better performance from a simple compiler.