Interesting article. There is another area not mentioned, DevOps where developer skills and approaches are being adopted in operations. People like John Allspaw of Etsy (previously Flickr) have been improving on how operations is handled by treating configuration as code and automating everything they can.

It is interesting to think through what this could mean to other areas (to me at least). Ie what would it mean to be a Sales Hacker, a Customer Support Hacker or even be a Middle Management Hacker. Possibly some of this will turn out to be meaningless but the success of the DevOps movement suggests to me there could be something to at least some of these ideas. Possibly the 'learn to code' movement will result in more cross overs in other domains, who knows.