Meantime, 32-year-old software magnate Takafumi Horie is banging at the doors of old corporate Japan.
On the other hand, the next George Kress could turn up tomorrow as a 30-year-old software entrepreneur.
Zac Vawter is a 31-year old software engineer who tragically lost his right leg after a motorcycle accident.
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No raucous shootouts among 25-year-old software developers aiming Nerf guns at each other.
The other founder of 2old2play.com, Derek Nolan, a 39-year-old software programmer from Massachusetts, is now engaged to the site's editor, Tiffany Fary.
Why would Panasjuk, a 35-year-old software engineer living in Boston, do that?
"Just make sure you think through what is going to happen in the worst case scenario, " says Mr Tippett, a 28-year-old software engineer.
The old software model is a high-touch solution with designs that require custom work, which is expensive to implement and not quick to scale.
"I kind of wonder if some of the jobs I'm applying to even exist, " says Asa Denton, a 31-year-old software programmer in Reno, Nev.
That security flaw was first publicly demonstrated by Cody Brocious, a 24-year-old software developer for Mozilla, at the Black Hat hacker conference in July.
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"People are sharing things they clearly don't want to share with the entire planet, " said Will Moffat, a 32-year-old software engineer who helped build the site.
He flew through the first two rounds, knocking off opponents like Nick Achtien, a 27-year-old software developer, who had spent about 30 minutes on his car.
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Kelly, a 28-year-old software engineer, admitted that there is also an element of luck (players staying injury free, others getting more playing time than expected) in winning three leagues.
Those are also the people Microsoft would have to convince to move old applications into new browsers, one of the primary reasons why businesses still use the eight-year-old software.
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Akiva Marks, a 47-year-old software designer who moved to Israel from New Jersey several years ago, said he considers himself ultra-Orthodox and wasn't unaware of the dangers posed by certain websites.
Nobody wants to be held back with old software.
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Matsushita Communication, the world's fourth-biggest mobile-phone maker, announced that it was taking a 9% shareholding in Symbian, an 11-month-old software joint venture fostered by Psion, a small but pioneering British company that makes handheld computers.
To overcome the problem of backward-compatibility, modern x86 chips such as the Pentium are able to take x86-style instructions from old software and split them up into several smaller micro-operations which lend themselves better to performance-enhancing trickery.
Research In Motion Ltd. jettisoned the old BlackBerry software and rebuilt it from the ground up.
But why would you want to run old PC software on a new tablet?
There is a sleepy old enterprise software market for HR systems which is on fire.
Carmack, the 38-year-old multimillionaire software whiz behind the videogames Doom and Quake, is a pesky gnat among the do-it-yourself rocketeering crowd.
After weeks in hiding, the 67-year-old antivirus software company founder emerged in Guatemala's capital last week to ask for asylum.
Herring, a 38-year-old senior software engineer for Abbott Point of Care Inc.
It will run your old Windows software as well as new programs that take advantage of the slick new look and touchscreen.
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In a Reuters interview global marketing chief Phil Schiller, engaged in a small spoiler routine, saying the S4 would ship with old Android software.
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"You don't make it to the top of the heap by going out like Rocky and just throwing punches at each other, " said the 30-year-old computer software engineer.
Where Y Combinator and other incubators stop, Solidus soldiers on by leading subsequent rounds of angel funding, explains Vic Gatto, a 41-year-old former software entrepreneur and fellow Massey Burch alum who joined Solidus in 2007.
In the old model, software was created to smooth processes and increase efficiency for back-end systems.
It doesn't include some of the old, familiar software, such as the email programs Pine or Mutt.
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