The phrase "a chunk of code" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific section or piece of programming code, often in the context of software development or coding discussions.
Example: "In order to fix the bug, I need to rewrite a chunk of code that handles user input."
Alternatives: "a piece of code" or "a segment of code".
Perhaps he expected that the ensuing dialogue would be akin to a debate over a chunk of code.
Microsoft has swiftly fixed an embarrassing gaffe which saw a chunk of code labelled "big boobs".
This makes it so that it's obvious that a chunk of code is separate from another.
This technique is called nesting, that is it shows a chunk of code is "nested" within another chunk of code, and allows the reader to easily follow the nesting pattern.
Once the code-morphing software has identified a chunk of x86 code that has a high "repeat rate", it will then re-examine that chunk to see if it can be optimised even further.
There are plenty of Chinese hackers around - last year I discovered a chunk of PHP code clearly written by a Chinese hacker on the Free Our Data blog which had been used to insert pharma spam.
The basis of the technology is to inject the insect eggs with the lethal gene - a chunk of genetic code that essentially programmes the flies to die as they're developing.
In order for malware writers to workaround Metapacket's detection system Krakowski reckons they would have to create complex programs — "of at least a few megabytes of data", that run "a whole chunk of code that mimics a browser" — which would in turn be at risk of flagging up the presence of something malicious on the network by merit of their complexity.
Rather than being a big chunk of code sitting on a hard disk on your desk, software will come "as a service" over the internet through a browser.
It's a bit of an ugly chunk of code that needs to specify the container format, the video codec and the audio codec.
