people usually try to add a callback add on to an EventEmitter 
usually thinking to themselves there will be only one error but usually 
there are several together, usually:
on connection error, on write closed connection, on connection 
timeout, they all come together.

https://gist.github.com/shimondoodkin/5718436#file-1-callback-basics-tutorial-js-L67

On Friday, August 22, 2014 11:35:29 AM UTC+3, Alisson Cavalcante Agiani 
wrote:
>
> How do people stumble upon this kind of error?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Alexey Petrushin <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> In my understanding the problem is not that it's not possible to prevent 
>> callback from being called twice, with underscore it's as simple as `cb = 
>> _(cb).once()` - but the problem is that it's cumbersome to do it everywhere.
>>
>> On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 00:18:30 UTC+4, Simon Doodkin wrote:
>>>
>>> Not long ago, T.J. complained in an article that he doesn't likes that 
>>> in node.js sometimes callbacks are called more than once.
>>> i have a simple solution for this if you need it. also i can suggest 
>>> that if you have callback problems you could use https://github.com/
>>> mattinsler/longjohn module to trace the problem. id did it several 
>>> times.
>>>
>>> cbguard:  https://gist.github.com/shimondoodkin/a6762d8ab29ea497e245
>>>
>>> // cbguard by Shimon Doodkin - license: public domain
>>>  
>>> function cbguard(cb,printerr){ //kind of filter for callbacks. it prevents 
>>> a callback to be called twice
>>>  var cb1=cb;
>>>  return function() {
>>>   if(cb1) { var cb2=cb1; cb1=false; return cb2.apply(this,arguments); }
>>>   else if(printerr)console.log(new Error('cb called twice').stack);
>>>  }
>>> }
>>>  
>>> // usage example:
>>> //function myfunction(cb)
>>> //{
>>> //  cb=cbguard(cb);  // usage example
>>> // // or
>>> // // cb=cbguard(cb,true);  // good when developing, it will protect and 
>>> also tell you you have a problem, here a callback is called twice here.
>>> //
>>> // things that are based on event emitteres are usually have problems with 
>>> multiple callbacks.
>>>  
>>>
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