[justifier]

linuxquestions.org

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/

you can ask whatever questions you want, and even ask a half formed question and eventually work out an answer through a back and forth

the community is great, and will happily help with the whole spectrum of questions from broad discussions to very specific individual software issues

i found offering an opinion in other peoples' questions to be as equally rewarding as asking my own

i linked to the programming forum above, but they have a bunch of great forums.. check out some of the other ones where you might have, or want to have, an overlap in interest:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/